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54 - . ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. following, nimble of foot, with her pappoose kicking and screaming on her back. CHAPTER VII. THE INDIANS STILL FURTHER ASTONISHED. The air hath its secrets, as well as the earth, There are specters of wind and of storm, They have peopled the world from its hour of birth, In many a wild, fierce form. Their coursers are crimson and meteor-manned, Their lances are bolts of the thunder, Their arms ‘with the tide of red battles are stained, And the green earth shrinks, quivering, under. ‘‘Well, Sam, I think we’ve given those fellowsa big scare for the present,” said Professor Max, turning around in the balloon-car, in the bottom of which Sam and the Indian maiden were sitting convulsed with laughter. ‘‘I reckon we'd better go up a mile or so and strike an air current. I know there is one up there that will waft us directly on our course toward Grizzly Bear Lake, and this mid-air stagnation is growing decidedly monotonous. ‘That little stove there is in good order, I believe, and we have an abundance of fuel, so that Fayaway can broil us some venison steaks while we are running the old bag. ‘Take a hand, now, and heave over some ballast. ‘That’s the ticket, we’re rising finely. Blast the bag, she seems to have grown lazy.” And while Sam tossed over several sacks of sand, the White Hermit seized the rudder-crank and made the great fan-wheels re- volve with great rapidity aud noise. The balloon arose swiftly, soon struck the desired air- current, and began to move along pretty fast. Sam helped Fayaway get up the fire in the little stove, which the old aeronaut had provided for the occasion with his usual fore- thought, some choice bits were cut from the carcass of the fine buck that had been captured, and in a few moments the air was filled with the savory odor of broiling meat. “By jingo! this begins to be cozy and homelike,” said Sam, whose usually excellent appetite had been quickly re- newed by therarified atmosphere combined with the excite- ment of the past few hours, ‘‘What are you squinting at now, professor?” com (‘@) nm ote 200KS (ele)