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They were all riding together through a belt of ti well up with the pack-horses, when suddenly

the blacks burst out with great excitee blue bull--a regular old patriarch, that had

evidently been hunted out of a herd, and was ca by himself

in the timber--made a rush out of sole, that could be seen half a mile or so away

Hugh and Considine were nearest hiether, full gallop through the timber The

old 's failure,

and to take Hugh down a peg, for he set a fearful pace through the

trees, grazing one and gliding under the boughs of another as only

a trained bush-rider can Hugh, co from the mountains, was no

duffer in timbered country either, and the two of them went at a

two pursuers,

and often in swerving froe horns, and fairly bounce off it He never atteht on, and they drew on to hi jealously for the first shot Considine

was on the wrong side, and had to use the carbine on the near side of

his horse; but he was undeniably a good rider, and laughed gri over, prepared to fire