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If you wait until this river falls , you are liable to have an experience like we had on the South Canadian , -- lost three days and bogged over a hundred cattle . When one of these sandy rivers has had a big freshet , look out for quicksands ; but you know that as well as I do . Why , we 've swum over half a dozen rivers already , and I 'd much rather swim this one than attempt to ford it just after it has fallen . We can double our outfits and be safely across before noon . I 've got nearly a thousand miles yet to make , and have just _ got _ to get over . Think it over to-night , and have your wagon ready to start with ours . '' Scholar rode away without giving our foreman any definite answer as to what he would do , though earlier in the evening he had offered to throw his herd well out of the way at the ford , and lend us any assistance at his command .