Where the prairie dogs sat chattering,

Bolt upright upon their mounds,

While the ground owls sought their burrows,

Startled by the warning sounds;

Stumbling into buffalo wallows,

Dug out in an earlier day

By the halting herds that rested,

Rolled and bellowed in their play.

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Now and then the sheltered hillside

Waved its varicolored flowers

As a greeting to the trav'ler,

Solace to the toilsome hours.

Old Jack Rabbit hopped before him,

Then sat up, to watch him pass,

Dusky horned-toads scurried nimbly

Through the withered buffalo grass.

Here and there the buzzing rattler

Whirred a warning, head alert,

Then retreated from the snapping,

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