Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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A lone prospector making camp.
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The Builders 439 The stage had covered perhaps twenty milesfrom the noon-time camp, and the next sta-tion lay about the same distance beyond.A solitary man was staggering on ahead,reeling from one side of the trail to theother, frequently halting to throw himselffiat on the sand and then more weaklyscrambling on. Far in advance, mere dotson the horizon, were three other figures onfoot. Presently the voice of the derelict floatedback in incoherent cries. He was so ab-sorbed in trying to overtake those far aheadof him that he paid no heed to the stageuntil it was beside him. Then he fell onhis knees with wild gestures and huskypleadings in Spanish. It seemed that thevanishing dots beyond were companionswith whom he had set out to walk from theBullfrog camps to the-railroad. They hadonly two canteens among them, and sinceleaving the last well their water had givenout, and his strength had been the first tobreak. They had pushed on in desperation,leaving him to fall by the wayside, and as

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