,
The king was sad, the king was mute;
At last he slowly said: "My son,
True treasure is not lightly won.

8. Your brother's hands, wherein you see
Only these scars, show more to me
Than if a kingdom's price I found
In place of each forgotten wound."

DEFINITIONS.--1. Doomed, destined, condemned. 2. Charmed, bewitched,
enchanted. 3. Blew, blossomed, bloomed. 4. Weird, tainted with witchcraft,
supernatural. Quick, alive, living. 6. Im-pe'ri-al, royal. 7 Mute, silent.

LXXX. CAPTURING THE WILD HORSE.

1. We left the buffalo camp about eight o'clock, and had a toilsome and
harassing march of two hours, over ridges of hills covered with a ragged
forest of scrub oaks, and broken by deep gullies.

2. About ten o'clock in the morning we came to where this line of rugged
hills swept down into a valley, through which flowed the north fork of Red
River. A beautiful meadow, about half a mile wide, enameled with yellow,
autumnal flowers, stretched for two or three miles along the foot of the
hills, bordered on the opposite side by the river, whose banks were
fringed with cottonwood trees, the bright foliage of which refreshed and
delighted the eye, after being wearied by the contemplation of monotonous
wastes of brown forest.

3. The meadow was finely diversified by groves and clumps of trees, so
happily dispersed that they seemed as if set out by the hand of art. As we
cast our eyes over this fresh and delightful valley, we beheld a troop of
wild horses quietly grazing on a green lawn, about a mile distant, to our
right, while to our left, at nearly the same distance, were several
buffaloes; some feeding, others reposing, and ruminating among the high,
rich herbage, under the shade of a clump of cottonwood trees. The whole
had the appearance of a broad, beautiful tract of pasture land, on the
highly ornamented estate of some gentleman farmer, with his cattle grazing
about the lawns and meadows.

4. A council of war was now held, and it was determined to profit by the
present favorable opportunity, and try our hand at the grand hunting
maneuver which is called "ringing the wild horse." This requires a large
party of horsemen, well mounted. They extend themselves in each direction,
at a certain distance apart, and gradually form a ring of two or three
miles in circumference, so as to surround the game. This must be done with
extreme care, for the wild horse is the most readily alarmed inhabitant of