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AL.OWSO POISOWHD. 249 but a short distance his shot makes the bones fly, which so tickles the fellovr that he jumps and jreUs like an Indian! Then Ysopete requests Alonso to permit his young chief, Tatarrax, to have a go, so he is Ukewise accommodated, and manages to bring some splinters. While the big Osage was shooting, Alonso is examining Long Arrow's bow, and when the Indian had gotten through with the firearm Alonso asked him to explain how he was able to pull such an instru- ment, and the Osage being from Missouri (part of the territory roamed by this tribe was in that state) "showed" how he used same in true Missouri style. Then Alonso sent an arrow from it, as weU as the young chief's bow and several others, so as to judge the various instruments. - After the last episode has been concluded, Alonso goes to his tent to rest, but it is not long before he feels a peculiar sensation in his left arm, upon which there is an abrasion of the sMn, which was caused by the lariat rope when he caught Jaramillo's horse, and after each minute the pain so increased that he called Monte's attention to it; then Monte went for Ysopete who at once pronounced it poison. Then there was hurrying: for these two last named were intensely solicitous for the welfare of the young man, in fact they idolized him, and now the secret which Monte had communicated to him by the Chief in Cibola is hastily applied to the place where the sMn is rubbed off, for it cannot be called a wound, and faithfully do these two friends, in deed as well as in need, care for the young Spaniard, and before the morning sun rises the swelling has gone down and the pain has