The others, with true western spirit, told him that they did not care for his money, but that they wanted his society. He said: "Alright, boys, if it is my intellect that you want, I am with you, but I am out of cash."

These English boys used to keep good hounds and guns, and horses, and rode their English postage-stamp saddles straight up and many was the time that they rode to hounds, chasing wolves and coyotes, and antelope.

John M. Adams, now of Georgia ; £. V. S. Pomeroy, now of California ; J. J. Mcintosh, late of Sidney ; and others, joined with them in these rides.

The bridge north of McGrew in the east part of Scotts Bluff county, crosses what is known as Hughes Island, and in the early days wild geese nested upon this island, and hatched their young.

The English sportsmen and their guests would take their hounds and horses, when the young geese were big enough to swim, but not old enough to fly, and they would drive a brood into the water, and try to ride them down, or catch them with the dogs. There was a great splashing and shouting, and the dogs entered into i'h full spirit of the chase. Occasionally

a horse would strike a honey-comb place in the sand and go down, the rider taking a full dive into the water over the animal's head. The young geese would try to swim away from their pursuers, but when nearly overtaken they would dive, coming up hundreds of feet away, and then hunters and hounds would go after them again. It was great sport for the sportsmen, but a little hard on the young geese ; and there is no more nesting on Hughes Island.