Captain Spencer Sent To The Hotel For Fresh Meat And Was Amazed When The Soldier Brought Back, Instead Of Meat, A List From Which He Was Asked To Select.

At that little log hotel of ten or twelve rooms there were seven kinds of meat - black-tail deer, white-tail deer, bear, grouse, prairie chicken, squirrels, and domestic fowl - the latter still in possession of their heads.

Hunting in the park is prohibited, and the proprietor of that fine game market was most careful to explain to the soldier that everything had been brought from the other side of the mountain. That was probably true, but nevertheless, just as we were leaving the woods by "Hell's Half Acre," and were coming out on a beautiful meadow surrounded by a thick forest, we saw for one instant a deer standing on the bank of a little stream at our right, and then it disappeared in the forest. Captain Spencer was on horseback, and happening to look to the left saw a man skulking to the woods with a rifle in his hand. The poor deer would undoubtedly have been shot if we had been a minute or two later.

For two nights our camp was in the pine forest back of "Old Faithful," and that gave us one whole day and afternoon with the geysers. Our colored cook was simply wild over them, and would spend hours looking down in the craters of those that were not playing. Those seemed to fascinate her above all things there, and at times she looked like a wild African when she returned to camp from one of them.

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