One day, en route to Utah, the company stopped for their noon meal and to rest and feed their weary animals. Elias, with a group of boys, was watching the cows a short distance from the camp. They began playing and forgot the cows for a short time; when they finally thought about them, they were nowhere to be seen. All the other boys ran back to the wagons and told the men the Indians had driven them off. But Elias went looking for them and found the cows quietly feeding in a bunch of willows.
When the other boys were making their report, the men said, "Where is the black eyed Cox boy?" They said he was lost too. But the men were not so easily fooled; they said "We'll wait for him to come in." A little later he came, driving the herd ahead of him
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