The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

AN ANIMATED BUSH.
I lay perfectly still for some time, straining my eyes in
the direction I had found my mule looking, buc could discern no cause for alarm. Still, from the continued agitation of the animal, I was convinced that there was reason
for apprehension. Not a sound could be heard save the
beating of my own heart, and the long, unsteady breathing
of the mule.
I remember that the short, quick yelp of a prairie wolf
seemed to me to be the most grateful sound to which I
had ever listened, so intense wasthe stillness. Not a
breath of air stirred the light tops of the grass.
At last I saw, or fancied I saw, some distance from me, a
small bush that I had not noticed before. I tried to remember having seen the bush when I lay down for the night,
but all to no purpose. As I gazed, fascinated, as it were,
by the appearance of the buth, it suddenly occurred to me
that I could see it more distinctly than at first, and congratulating myself on the approaching daylight, was begin
fing to take courage, when I thought I saw the bush move.
As no air was stirring, this could hardly be; and yet,
as I watched it, slowly and surely it came towards the spot
where I lay.
Suddenly the thought flashed upon me that immediately
after leaving the Organos Mountains we had noticed Indian
smoke-signals, and also in the Sacramento Mountains as we
approached them the previous day. In an instant I clearly
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