Buffalo Bill's Best Bet; Or A Sure Thing Well Won

“One thousand dollars for my life.� “You holds it cheap pard.� “It is all I have with me.� “Guess not fer men say as how you hes dimints ’bout yer clothes ef yer goes broke with gold dust.� “I have diamonds with me; two splendid ones and you shall have your choice if you aid me.� “And the thousand dollars too pard?� “Yes.� “Say both dimints and nine hundred dollars an’ I’ll aid yer an’ yer’ll then hev a hundred dollars to speckilate on an’ yer is a born gambler men say so won’t go broke long.� The speakers were standing in the shadow of a large tree. The scene around them was picturesque in the extreme for the open prairie stretched upon the one hand with twoscore horses lariated out to feed upon the rich grass and upon the other was a grove of timber now illuminated by a dozen camp fires around which sat a dashing reckless set of men smoking and talking over the dangers they had known. [EXCERPT OF THE AUTHOR'S WORK]