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The herds that wintered in Texas, the Indian Territory,
and New Mexico probably spent their summers in Nebraska, southwestern
Dakota, and Wyoming.

Output:
The winter herds of northern Colorado, Wyoming,
Nebraska, and southern Dakota went to northern Dakota and Montana, while
the great Montana herds spent the summer on the Grand Coteau des
Prairies lying between the Saskatchewan and the Missouri.


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Input:
The winter herds of northern Colorado, Wyoming,
Nebraska, and southern Dakota went to northern Dakota and Montana, while
the great Montana herds spent the summer on the Grand Coteau des
Prairies lying between the Saskatchewan and the Missouri.

Output:
The two great
annual expeditions of the Red River half-breeds, which always took place
in summer, went in two directions from Winnipeg and Pembina--one, the
White Horse Plain division, going westward along the Qu'Appelle to the
Saskatchewan country, and the other, the Red River division, southwest
into Dakota.


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Input:
The two great
annual expeditions of the Red River half-breeds, which always took place
in summer, went in two directions from Winnipeg and Pembina--one, the
White Horse Plain division, going westward along the Qu'Appelle to the
Saskatchewan country, and the other, the Red River division, southwest
into Dakota.

Output:
In 1840 the site of the present city of Jamestown, Dakota,
was the northeastern limit of the herds that summered in Dakota, and the
country lying between that point and the Missouri was for years the
favorite hunting ground of the Red River division.


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Input:
In 1840 the site of the present city of Jamestown, Dakota,
was the northeastern limit of the herds that summered in Dakota, and the
country lying between that point and the Missouri was for years the
favorite hunting ground of the Red River division.

Output:
The herds which wintered on the Montana ranges always went north in the
early spring, usually in March, so that during the time the hunters were
hauling in the hides taken on the winter hunt the ranges were entirely
deserted.


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Input:
The herds which wintered on the Montana ranges always went north in the
early spring, usually in March, so that during the time the hunters were
hauling in the hides taken on the winter hunt the ranges were entirely
deserted.

Output:
It is equally certain, however, that a few small bauds
remained in certain portions of Montana throughout the summer.


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Input:
It is equally certain, however, that a few small bauds
remained in certain portions of Montana throughout the summer.

Output:
But the
main body crossed the international boundary, and spent the summer on
the plains of the Saskatchewan, where they were hunted by the
half-breeds from the Red River settlements and the Indians of the
plains.


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Input:
But the
main body crossed the international boundary, and spent the summer on
the plains of the Saskatchewan, where they were hunted by the
half-breeds from the Red River settlements and the Indians of the
plains.

Output:
It is my belief that in this movement nearly all the buffaloes
of Montana and Dakota participated, and that the herds which spent the
summer in Dakota, where they were annually hunted by the Red River
half-breeds, came up from Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska.


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Input:
It is my belief that in this movement nearly all the buffaloes
of Montana and Dakota participated, and that the herds which spent the
summer in Dakota, where they were annually hunted by the Red River
half-breeds, came up from Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska.

Output:
While most of the calves were born on the summer ranges, many were
brought forth en route.


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Input:
While most of the calves were born on the summer ranges, many were
brought forth en route.

Output:
It was the habit of the cows to retire to a
secluded spot, if possible a ravine well screened from observation,
bring forth their young, and nourish and defend them until they were
strong enough to join the herd.


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Input:
It was the habit of the cows to retire to a
secluded spot, if possible a ravine well screened from observation,
bring forth their young, and nourish and defend them until they were
strong enough to join the herd.

Output:
Calves were born all the time from March
to July, and sometimes even as late as August.


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Input:
Calves were born all the time from March
to July, and sometimes even as late as August.

Output:
On the summer ranges it
was the habit of the cows to leave the bulls at calving time, and thus
it often happened that small herds were often seen composed of bulls
only.


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Input:
On the summer ranges it
was the habit of the cows to leave the bulls at calving time, and thus
it often happened that small herds were often seen composed of bulls
only.

Output:
Usually the cow produced but one calf, but twins were not
uncommon.


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Input:
Usually the cow produced but one calf, but twins were not
uncommon.

Output:
Of course many calves were brought forth in the herd, but the
favorite habit of the cow was as stated.


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Input:
Of course many calves were brought forth in the herd, but the
favorite habit of the cow was as stated.

Output:
As soon as the young calves
were brought into the herd, which for prudential reasons occurred at the
earliest possible moment, the bulls assumed the duty of protecting them
from the wolves which at all times congregated in the vicinity of a
herd, watching for an opportunity to seize a calf or a wounded buffalo
which might be left behind.


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Input:
As soon as the young calves
were brought into the herd, which for prudential reasons occurred at the
earliest possible moment, the bulls assumed the duty of protecting them
from the wolves which at all times congregated in the vicinity of a
herd, watching for an opportunity to seize a calf or a wounded buffalo
which might be left behind.

Output:
A calf always follows its mother until its
successor is appointed and installed, unless separated from her by force
of circumstances.


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Input:
A calf always follows its mother until its
successor is appointed and installed, unless separated from her by force
of circumstances.

Output:
They suck until they are nine months old, or even
older, and Mr. McNaney once saw a lusty calf suck its mother (in
January) on the Montana range several hours after she had been killed
for her skin.


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Input:
They suck until they are nine months old, or even
older, and Mr. McNaney once saw a lusty calf suck its mother (in
January) on the Montana range several hours after she had been killed
for her skin.

Output:
When a buffalo is wounded it leaves the herd immediately and goes off as
far from the line of pursuit as it can get, to escape the rabble of
hunters, who are sure to follow the main body.


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Input:
When a buffalo is wounded it leaves the herd immediately and goes off as
far from the line of pursuit as it can get, to escape the rabble of
hunters, who are sure to follow the main body.

Output:
If any deep ravines are
at hand the wounded animal limps away to the bottom of the deepest and
most secluded one, and gradually works his way up to its very head,
where he finds himself in a perfect cul-de-sac, barely wide enough to
admit him.


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Input:
If any deep ravines are
at hand the wounded animal limps away to the bottom of the deepest and
most secluded one, and gradually works his way up to its very head,
where he finds himself in a perfect cul-de-sac, barely wide enough to
admit him.

Output:
Here he is so completely hidden by the high walls and
numerous bends that his pursuer must needs come within a few feet of his
horns before his huge bulk is visible.


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Input:
Here he is so completely hidden by the high walls and
numerous bends that his pursuer must needs come within a few feet of his
horns before his huge bulk is visible.

Output:
I have more than once been
astonished at the real impregnability of the retreats selected by
wounded bison.


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I have more than once been
astonished at the real impregnability of the retreats selected by
wounded bison.

Output:
In following up wounded bulls in ravine headings it
always became too dangerous to make the last stage of the pursuit on
horseback, for fear of being caught in a passage so narrow as to insure
a fatal accident to man or horse in case of a sudden discovery of the
quarry.


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Input:
In following up wounded bulls in ravine headings it
always became too dangerous to make the last stage of the pursuit on
horseback, for fear of being caught in a passage so narrow as to insure
a fatal accident to man or horse in case of a sudden discovery of the
quarry.

Output:
I have seen wounded bison shelter in situations where a single
bull could easily defend himself from a whole pack of wolves, being
completely walled in on both sides and the rear, and leaving his foes no
point of attack save his head and horns.


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Input:
I have seen wounded bison shelter in situations where a single
bull could easily defend himself from a whole pack of wolves, being
completely walled in on both sides and the rear, and leaving his foes no
point of attack save his head and horns.

Output:
Bison which were nursing serious wounds most often have gone many days
at a time without either food or water, and in this connection it may be
mentioned that the recuperative power of a bison is really wonderful.


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Input:
Bison which were nursing serious wounds most often have gone many days
at a time without either food or water, and in this connection it may be
mentioned that the recuperative power of a bison is really wonderful.

Output:
Judging from the number of old leg wounds, fully healed, which I have
found in freshly killed bisons, one may be tempted to believe that a
bison never died of a broken leg.


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Input:
Judging from the number of old leg wounds, fully healed, which I have
found in freshly killed bisons, one may be tempted to believe that a
bison never died of a broken leg.

Output:
One large bull which I skeletonized
had had his humerus shot squarely in two, but it had united again more
firmly than ever.


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Input:
One large bull which I skeletonized
had had his humerus shot squarely in two, but it had united again more
firmly than ever.

Output:
Another large bull had the head of his left femur and
the hip socket shattered completely to pieces by a big ball, but he had
entirely recovered from it, and was as lusty a runner as any bull we
chased.


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Input:
Another large bull had the head of his left femur and
the hip socket shattered completely to pieces by a big ball, but he had
entirely recovered from it, and was as lusty a runner as any bull we
chased.

Output:
We found that while a broken leg was a misfortune to a buffalo,
it always took something more serious than that to stop him.

VI.


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We found that while a broken leg was a misfortune to a buffalo,
it always took something more serious than that to stop him.

VI.

Output: THE FOOD OF THE BISON.


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Input: THE FOOD OF THE BISON.

Output:
It is obviously impossible to enumerate all the grasses which served the
bison as food on his native heath without presenting a complete list of
all the plants of that order found in a given region; but it is at least
desirable to know which of the grasses of the great pasture region were
his favorite and most common food.


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Input:
It is obviously impossible to enumerate all the grasses which served the
bison as food on his native heath without presenting a complete list of
all the plants of that order found in a given region; but it is at least
desirable to know which of the grasses of the great pasture region were
his favorite and most common food.

Output:
It was the nutritious character and
marvelous abundance of his food supply which enabled the bison to exist
in such absolutely countless numbers as characterized his occupancy of
the great plains.


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Input:
It was the nutritious character and
marvelous abundance of his food supply which enabled the bison to exist
in such absolutely countless numbers as characterized his occupancy of
the great plains.

Output:
The following list comprises the grasses which were
the bison's principal food, named in the order of their importance:

_Bouteloua oligostachya_ (buffalo, grama, or mesquite grass).--This
remarkable grass formed the _pièce de résistance_ of the bison's bill
of fare in the days when he flourished, and it now comes to us daily in
the form of beef produced of primest quality and in greatest quantity on
what was until recently the great buffalo range.


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Input:
The following list comprises the grasses which were
the bison's principal food, named in the order of their importance:

_Bouteloua oligostachya_ (buffalo, grama, or mesquite grass).--This
remarkable grass formed the _pièce de résistance_ of the bison's bill
of fare in the days when he flourished, and it now comes to us daily in
the form of beef produced of primest quality and in greatest quantity on
what was until recently the great buffalo range.

Output:
This grass is the most
abundant and widely distributed species to be found in the great pasture
region between the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains and the
nineteenth degree of west longitude.


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Input:
This grass is the most
abundant and widely distributed species to be found in the great pasture
region between the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains and the
nineteenth degree of west longitude.

Output:
It is the principal grass of the
plains from Texas to the British Possessions, and even in the latter
territory it is quite conspicuous.


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Input:
It is the principal grass of the
plains from Texas to the British Possessions, and even in the latter
territory it is quite conspicuous.

Output:
To any one but a botanist its first
acquaintance means a surprise.


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Input:
To any one but a botanist its first
acquaintance means a surprise.

Output:
Its name and fame lead the unacquainted
to expect a grass which is tall, rank, and full of "fodder," like the
"blue joint" (_Andropogon provincialis_).


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Input:
Its name and fame lead the unacquainted
to expect a grass which is tall, rank, and full of "fodder," like the
"blue joint" (_Andropogon provincialis_).

Output:
The grama grass is very short,
the leaves being usually not more than 2 or 3 inches in length and
crowded together at the base of the stems.


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Input:
The grama grass is very short,
the leaves being usually not more than 2 or 3 inches in length and
crowded together at the base of the stems.

Output:
The flower stalk is about a
foot in height, but on grazed lands are eaten off and but seldom seen.


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Input:
The flower stalk is about a
foot in height, but on grazed lands are eaten off and but seldom seen.

Output: The leaves are narrow and inclined to curl, and lie close to the ground.


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Input: The leaves are narrow and inclined to curl, and lie close to the ground.

Output:
Instead of developing a continuous growth, this grass grows in small,
irregular patches, usually about the size of a man's hand, with narrow
strips of perfectly bare ground between them.


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Input:
Instead of developing a continuous growth, this grass grows in small,
irregular patches, usually about the size of a man's hand, with narrow
strips of perfectly bare ground between them.

Output:
The grass curls closely
upon the ground, in a woolly carpet or cushion, greatly resembling a
layer of Florida moss.


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Input:
The grass curls closely
upon the ground, in a woolly carpet or cushion, greatly resembling a
layer of Florida moss.

Output:
Even in spring-time it never shows more color
than a tint of palest green, and the landscape which is dependent upon
this grass for color is never more than "a gray and melancholy waste.


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Input:
Even in spring-time it never shows more color
than a tint of palest green, and the landscape which is dependent upon
this grass for color is never more than "a gray and melancholy waste.

Output:
"
Unlike the soft, juicy, and succulent grasses of the well-watered
portions of the United States, the tiny leaves of the grama grass are
hard, stiff, and dry.


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Input:
"
Unlike the soft, juicy, and succulent grasses of the well-watered
portions of the United States, the tiny leaves of the grama grass are
hard, stiff, and dry.

Output:
I have often noticed that in grazing neither
cattle nor horses are able to bite off the blades, but instead each leaf
is pulled out of the tuft, seemingly by its root.


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Input:
I have often noticed that in grazing neither
cattle nor horses are able to bite off the blades, but instead each leaf
is pulled out of the tuft, seemingly by its root.

Output:
Notwithstanding its dry and uninviting appearance, this grass is highly
nutritious, and its fat-producing qualities are unexcelled.


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Input:
Notwithstanding its dry and uninviting appearance, this grass is highly
nutritious, and its fat-producing qualities are unexcelled.

Output:
The heat of
summer dries it up effectually without destroying its nutritive
elements, and it becomes for the remainder of the year excellent hay,
cured on its own roots.


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Input:
The heat of
summer dries it up effectually without destroying its nutritive
elements, and it becomes for the remainder of the year excellent hay,
cured on its own roots.

Output:
It affords good grazing all the year round, save
in winter, when it is covered with snow, and even then, if the snow is
not too deep, the buffaloes, cattle, and horses paw down through it to
reach the grass, or else repair to wind-swept ridges and hill-tops,
where the snow has been blown off and left the grass partly exposed.


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Input:
It affords good grazing all the year round, save
in winter, when it is covered with snow, and even then, if the snow is
not too deep, the buffaloes, cattle, and horses paw down through it to
reach the grass, or else repair to wind-swept ridges and hill-tops,
where the snow has been blown off and left the grass partly exposed.

Output: Stock prefer it to all the other grasses of the plains.


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Input: Stock prefer it to all the other grasses of the plains.

Output:
On bottom-lands, where moisture is abundant, this grass develops much
more luxuriantly, growing in a close mass, and often to a height of a
foot or more, if not grazed down, when it is cut for hay, and sometimes
yields 11/2 tons to the acre.


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Input:
On bottom-lands, where moisture is abundant, this grass develops much
more luxuriantly, growing in a close mass, and often to a height of a
foot or more, if not grazed down, when it is cut for hay, and sometimes
yields 11/2 tons to the acre.

Output:
In Montana and the north it is generally
known as "buffalo-grass," a name to which it would seem to be fully
entitled, notwithstanding the fact that this name is also applied, and
quite generally, to another species, the next to be noticed.


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Input:
In Montana and the north it is generally
known as "buffalo-grass," a name to which it would seem to be fully
entitled, notwithstanding the fact that this name is also applied, and
quite generally, to another species, the next to be noticed.

Output: _Buchloë dactyloides_


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Input: _Buchloë dactyloides_

Output:
(Southern buffalo-grass).--This species is next
in value and extent of distribution to the grama grass.


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Input:
(Southern buffalo-grass).--This species is next
in value and extent of distribution to the grama grass.

Output:
It also is found
all over the great plains south of Nebraska and southern Wyoming, but
not further north, although in many localities it occurs so sparsely as
to be of little account.


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Input:
It also is found
all over the great plains south of Nebraska and southern Wyoming, but
not further north, although in many localities it occurs so sparsely as
to be of little account.

Output:
A single bunch of it very greatly resembles
_Bouteloua oligostachya_, but its general growth is very different.


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Input:
A single bunch of it very greatly resembles
_Bouteloua oligostachya_, but its general growth is very different.

Output:
It
is very short, its general mass seldom rising more than 3 inches above
the ground.


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Input:
It
is very short, its general mass seldom rising more than 3 inches above
the ground.

Output:
It grows in extensive patches, and spreads by means of
stolons, which sometimes are 2 feet in length, with joints every 3 or 4
inches.


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Input:
It grows in extensive patches, and spreads by means of
stolons, which sometimes are 2 feet in length, with joints every 3 or 4
inches.

Output:
Owing to its southern distribution this might well be named the
Southern buffalo grass, to distinguish it from the two other species of
higher latitudes, to which the name "buffalo" has been fastened forever.


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Input:
Owing to its southern distribution this might well be named the
Southern buffalo grass, to distinguish it from the two other species of
higher latitudes, to which the name "buffalo" has been fastened forever.

Output: _


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Output: Stipa spartea_


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Input: Stipa spartea_

Output:
(Northern buffalo-grass; wild oat).--This grass is found
in southern Manitoba, westwardly across the plains to the Rocky
Mountains, and southward as far as Montana, where it is common in many
localities.


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Input:
(Northern buffalo-grass; wild oat).--This grass is found
in southern Manitoba, westwardly across the plains to the Rocky
Mountains, and southward as far as Montana, where it is common in many
localities.

Output:
On what was once the buffalo range of the British
Possessions this rank grass formed the bulk of the winter pasturage, and
in that region is quite as famous as our grama grass.


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Input:
On what was once the buffalo range of the British
Possessions this rank grass formed the bulk of the winter pasturage, and
in that region is quite as famous as our grama grass.

Output:
An allied species
(_Stipa viridula_, bunch-grass) is "widely diffused over our Rocky
Mountain region, extending to California and British America, and
furnishing a considerable part of the wild forage of the region" _


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Input:
An allied species
(_Stipa viridula_, bunch-grass) is "widely diffused over our Rocky
Mountain region, extending to California and British America, and
furnishing a considerable part of the wild forage of the region" _

Output:
Stipa
spartea_ bears an ill name among stockmen on account of the fact that at
the base of each seed is a very hard and sharp-pointed callus, which
under certain circumstances (so it is said) lodges in the cheeks of
domestic animals that feed upon this grass when it is dry, and which
cause much trouble.


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Input:
Stipa
spartea_ bears an ill name among stockmen on account of the fact that at
the base of each seed is a very hard and sharp-pointed callus, which
under certain circumstances (so it is said) lodges in the cheeks of
domestic animals that feed upon this grass when it is dry, and which
cause much trouble.

Output:
But the buffalo, like the wild horse and half-wild
range cattle, evidently escaped this annoyance.


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Input:
But the buffalo, like the wild horse and half-wild
range cattle, evidently escaped this annoyance.

Output:
This grass is one of the
common species over a wide area of the northern plains, and is always
found on soil which is comparatively dry.


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Input:
This grass is one of the
common species over a wide area of the northern plains, and is always
found on soil which is comparatively dry.

Output:
In Dakota, Minnesota, and
northwest Iowa it forms a considerable portion of the upland prairie
hay.


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Input:
In Dakota, Minnesota, and
northwest Iowa it forms a considerable portion of the upland prairie
hay.

Output:
Of the remaining grasses it is practically impossible to single out any
one as being specially entitled to fourth place in this list.


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Input:
Of the remaining grasses it is practically impossible to single out any
one as being specially entitled to fourth place in this list.

Output:
There are
several species which flourish in different localities, and in many
respects appear to be of about equal importance as food for stock.


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Input:
There are
several species which flourish in different localities, and in many
respects appear to be of about equal importance as food for stock.

Output:
Of
these the following are the most noteworthy:

_


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Input:
Of
these the following are the most noteworthy:

_

Output: Aristida purpurea_


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Input: Aristida purpurea_

Output:
(Western beard-grass; purple "bunch-grass" of
Montana).--On


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Input:
(Western beard-grass; purple "bunch-grass" of
Montana).--On

Output:
the high, rolling prairies of the Missouri-Yellowstone
divide this grass is very abundant.


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Input:
the high, rolling prairies of the Missouri-Yellowstone
divide this grass is very abundant.

Output:
It grows in little solitary bunches,
about 6 inches high, scattered through the curly buffalo-grass
(_Bouteloua oligostachya_).


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Input:
It grows in little solitary bunches,
about 6 inches high, scattered through the curly buffalo-grass
(_Bouteloua oligostachya_).

Output:
Under more favorable conditions it grows to
a height of 12 to 18 inches.


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Input:
Under more favorable conditions it grows to
a height of 12 to 18 inches.

Output:
It is one of the prettiest grasses of that
region, and in the fall and winter its purplish color makes it quite
noticeable.


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Input:
It is one of the prettiest grasses of that
region, and in the fall and winter its purplish color makes it quite
noticeable.

Output:
The Montana stockmen consider it one of the most valuable
grasses of that region for stock of all kinds.


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Input:
The Montana stockmen consider it one of the most valuable
grasses of that region for stock of all kinds.

Output:
Mr. C. M. Jacobs assured
me that the buffalo used to be very fond of this grass, and that
"wherever this grass grew in abundance there were the best
hunting-grounds for the bison."


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Input:
Mr. C. M. Jacobs assured
me that the buffalo used to be very fond of this grass, and that
"wherever this grass grew in abundance there were the best
hunting-grounds for the bison."

Output:
It appears that _Aristida purpurea_ is
not sufficiently abundant elsewhere in the Northwest to make it an
important food for stock; but Dr. Vesey declares that it is "abundant on
the plains of Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas.


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Input:
It appears that _Aristida purpurea_ is
not sufficiently abundant elsewhere in the Northwest to make it an
important food for stock; but Dr. Vesey declares that it is "abundant on
the plains of Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas.

Output:
"

_Koeleria cristata._--Very generally distributed from Texas and New
Mexico to the British Possessions; sand hills and arid soils; mountains,
up to 8,000 feet.


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Input:
"

_Koeleria cristata._--Very generally distributed from Texas and New
Mexico to the British Possessions; sand hills and arid soils; mountains,
up to 8,000 feet.

Output: _


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Output:
Poa tenuifolia_ (blue-grass of the plains and mountains).--A valuable
"bunch-grass," widely distributed throughout the great pasture region;
grows in all sorts of soils and situations; common in the Yellowstone
Park.


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Input:
Poa tenuifolia_ (blue-grass of the plains and mountains).--A valuable
"bunch-grass," widely distributed throughout the great pasture region;
grows in all sorts of soils and situations; common in the Yellowstone
Park.

Output: _


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Output:
Festuca scabrella_ (bunch-grass).--One of the most valuable grasses of
Montana and the Northwest generally; often called the "great
bunch-grass."


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Input:
Festuca scabrella_ (bunch-grass).--One of the most valuable grasses of
Montana and the Northwest generally; often called the "great
bunch-grass."

Output:
It furnishes excellent food for horses and cattle, and is
so tall it is cut in large quantities for hay.


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Input:
It furnishes excellent food for horses and cattle, and is
so tall it is cut in large quantities for hay.

Output:
This is the prevailing
species on the foot-hills and mountains generally, up to an altitude of
7,000 feet, where it is succeeded by _


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Input:
This is the prevailing
species on the foot-hills and mountains generally, up to an altitude of
7,000 feet, where it is succeeded by _

Output: Festuca ovina_.


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Input: Festuca ovina_.

Output:
_Andropogon provincialis_ (blue stem).--An important species, extending
from eastern Kansas and Nebraska to the foot-hills of the Rocky
Mountains, and from Northern Texas to the Saskatchewan; common in
Montana on alkali flats and bottom lands generally.


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Input:
_Andropogon provincialis_ (blue stem).--An important species, extending
from eastern Kansas and Nebraska to the foot-hills of the Rocky
Mountains, and from Northern Texas to the Saskatchewan; common in
Montana on alkali flats and bottom lands generally.

Output:
This and the
preceding species were of great value to the buffalo in winter, when the
shorter grasses were covered with snow.


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Input:
This and the
preceding species were of great value to the buffalo in winter, when the
shorter grasses were covered with snow.

Output:
_Andropogon scoparius_ (bunch grass; broom sedge; wood-grass).--Similar
to the preceding in distribution and value, but not nearly so tall.


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Input:
_Andropogon scoparius_ (bunch grass; broom sedge; wood-grass).--Similar
to the preceding in distribution and value, but not nearly so tall.

Output: None of the buffalo grasses are found in the mountains.


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Input: None of the buffalo grasses are found in the mountains.

Output:
In the mountain
regions which have been visited by the buffalo and in the Yellowstone
Park, where to-day the only herd remaining in a state of nature is to be
found (though not by the man with a gun), the following are the grasses
which form all but a small proportion of the ruminant food: _Koeleria
cristata_; _


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Input:
In the mountain
regions which have been visited by the buffalo and in the Yellowstone
Park, where to-day the only herd remaining in a state of nature is to be
found (though not by the man with a gun), the following are the grasses
which form all but a small proportion of the ruminant food: _Koeleria
cristata_; _

Output: Poa tenuifolia_


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Input: Poa tenuifolia_

Output: (Western blue-grass);


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Input: (Western blue-grass);

Output: _


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Output:
Stipa viridula_
(feather-grass); _Stipa comata_; _Agropyrum divergens_; _


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Input:
Stipa viridula_
(feather-grass); _Stipa comata_; _Agropyrum divergens_; _

Output:
Agropyrum
caninum_.


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Input:
Agropyrum
caninum_.

Output:
When pressed by hunger, the buffalo used to browse on certain species of
sage-brush, particularly _Atriplex canescens_ of the Southwest.


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Input:
When pressed by hunger, the buffalo used to browse on certain species of
sage-brush, particularly _Atriplex canescens_ of the Southwest.

Output:
But he
was discriminating in the matter of diet, and as far as can be
ascertained he was never known to eat the famous and much-dreaded "loco"
weed (_Astragalus molissimus_), which to ruminant animals is a veritable
drug of madness.


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Input:
But he
was discriminating in the matter of diet, and as far as can be
ascertained he was never known to eat the famous and much-dreaded "loco"
weed (_Astragalus molissimus_), which to ruminant animals is a veritable
drug of madness.

Output:
Domestic cattle and horses often eat this plant; where
it is abundant, and become demented in consequence.


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Input:
Domestic cattle and horses often eat this plant; where
it is abundant, and become demented in consequence.

Output: VII.


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Input: VII.

Output: MENTAL CAPACITY AND DISPOSITION.


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Input: MENTAL CAPACITY AND DISPOSITION.

Output: (1) _


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Input: (1) _

Output:
Reasoning from cause to effect._--The buffalo of the past was an
animal of a rather low order of intelligence, and his dullness of
intellect was one of the important factors in his phenomenally swift
extermination.


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Input:
Reasoning from cause to effect._--The buffalo of the past was an
animal of a rather low order of intelligence, and his dullness of
intellect was one of the important factors in his phenomenally swift
extermination.

Output:
He was provokingly slow in comprehending the existence
and nature of the dangers that threatened his life, and, like the stupid
brute that he was, would very often stand quietly and see two or three
score, or even a hundred, of his relatives and companions shot down
before his eyes, with no other feeling than one of stupid wonder and
curiosity.


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Input:
He was provokingly slow in comprehending the existence
and nature of the dangers that threatened his life, and, like the stupid
brute that he was, would very often stand quietly and see two or three
score, or even a hundred, of his relatives and companions shot down
before his eyes, with no other feeling than one of stupid wonder and
curiosity.

Output:
Neither the noise nor smoke of the still-hunter's rifle, the
falling, struggling, nor the final death of his companions conveyed to
his mind the idea of a danger to be fled from, and so the herd stood
still and allowed the still-hunter to slaughter its members at will.


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Input:
Neither the noise nor smoke of the still-hunter's rifle, the
falling, struggling, nor the final death of his companions conveyed to
his mind the idea of a danger to be fled from, and so the herd stood
still and allowed the still-hunter to slaughter its members at will.

Output:
Like the Indian, and many white men also, the buffalo seemed to feel
that their number was so great it could never be sensibly diminished.


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Input:
Like the Indian, and many white men also, the buffalo seemed to feel
that their number was so great it could never be sensibly diminished.

Output:
The presence of such a great multitude gave to each of its individuals a
feeling of security and mutual support that is very generally found in
animals who congregate in great herds.


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Input:
The presence of such a great multitude gave to each of its individuals a
feeling of security and mutual support that is very generally found in
animals who congregate in great herds.

Output:
The time was when a band of elk
would stand stupidly and wait for its members to be shot down one after
another; but it is believed that this was due more to panic than to a
lack of comprehension of danger.


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Input:
The time was when a band of elk
would stand stupidly and wait for its members to be shot down one after
another; but it is believed that this was due more to panic than to a
lack of comprehension of danger.

Output:
The fur seals who cover the "hauling grounds" of St. Paul and St. George
Islands, Alaska, in countless thousands, have even less sense of danger
and less comprehension of the slaughter of thousands of their kind,
which takes place daily, than had the bison.


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Input:
The fur seals who cover the "hauling grounds" of St. Paul and St. George
Islands, Alaska, in countless thousands, have even less sense of danger
and less comprehension of the slaughter of thousands of their kind,
which takes place daily, than had the bison.

Output:
They allow themselves to be
herded and driven off landwards from the hauling-ground for half a mile
to the killing-ground, and, finally, with most cheerful indifference,
permit the Aleuts to club their brains out.


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Input:
They allow themselves to be
herded and driven off landwards from the hauling-ground for half a mile
to the killing-ground, and, finally, with most cheerful indifference,
permit the Aleuts to club their brains out.

Output:
It is to be added that whenever and wherever seals or sea-lions inhabit
a given spot, with but few exceptions, it is an easy matter to approach
individuals of the herd.


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Input:
It is to be added that whenever and wherever seals or sea-lions inhabit
a given spot, with but few exceptions, it is an easy matter to approach
individuals of the herd.

Output:
The presence of an immense number of
individuals plainly begets a feeling of security and mutual support.


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Input:
The presence of an immense number of
individuals plainly begets a feeling of security and mutual support.

Output:
And
let not the bison or the seal be blamed for this, for man himself
exhibits the same foolish instinct.


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Input:
And
let not the bison or the seal be blamed for this, for man himself
exhibits the same foolish instinct.

Output:
Who has not met the woman of mature
years and full intellectual vigor who is mortally afraid to spend a
night entirely alone in her own house, but is perfectly willing to do
so, and often does do so without fear, when she can have the company of
one small and helpless child, or, what is still worse, three or four of
them!


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Input:
Who has not met the woman of mature
years and full intellectual vigor who is mortally afraid to spend a
night entirely alone in her own house, but is perfectly willing to do
so, and often does do so without fear, when she can have the company of
one small and helpless child, or, what is still worse, three or four of
them!

Output:
But with the approach of extermination, and the utter breaking up
of all the herds, a complete change has been wrought in the character of
the bison.


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Input:
But with the approach of extermination, and the utter breaking up
of all the herds, a complete change has been wrought in the character of
the bison.

Output: At last, but alas!


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Input: At last, but alas!

Output:
entirely too late, the crack of the rifle
and its accompanying puff of smoke conveyed to the slow mind of the
bison a sense of deadly danger to himself.


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Input:
entirely too late, the crack of the rifle
and its accompanying puff of smoke conveyed to the slow mind of the
bison a sense of deadly danger to himself.

Output:
At last he recognized man,
whether on foot or horseback, or peering at him from a coulée, as his
mortal enemy.


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Input:
At last he recognized man,
whether on foot or horseback, or peering at him from a coulée, as his
mortal enemy.

Output: At last he learned to run.


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Input: At last he learned to run.

Output:
In 1886 we found the scattered
remnant of the great northern herd the wildest and most difficult
animals to kill that we had ever hunted in any country.


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Input:
In 1886 we found the scattered
remnant of the great northern herd the wildest and most difficult
animals to kill that we had ever hunted in any country.

Output:
It had been only
through the keenest exercise of all their powers of self-preservation
that those buffaloes had survived until that late day, and we found
them almost as swift as antelopes and far more wary.


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Input:
It had been only
through the keenest exercise of all their powers of self-preservation
that those buffaloes had survived until that late day, and we found
them almost as swift as antelopes and far more wary.

Output:
The instant a
buffalo caught sight of a man, even though a mile distant, he was off at
the top of his speed, and generally ran for some wild region several
miles away.


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Input:
The instant a
buffalo caught sight of a man, even though a mile distant, he was off at
the top of his speed, and generally ran for some wild region several
miles away.

Output:
In our party was an experienced buffalo-hunter, who in three years had
slaughtered over three thousand head for their hides.


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Input:
In our party was an experienced buffalo-hunter, who in three years had
slaughtered over three thousand head for their hides.

Output:
He declared that
if he could ever catch a "bunch" at rest he could "get a stand" the same
as he used to do, and kill several head before the rest would run.


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Input:
He declared that
if he could ever catch a "bunch" at rest he could "get a stand" the same
as he used to do, and kill several head before the rest would run.

Output:
It so
happened that the first time we found buffaloes we discovered a bunch of
fourteen head, lying in the sun at noon, on the level top of a low
butte, all noses pointing up the wind.


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Input:
It so
happened that the first time we found buffaloes we discovered a bunch of
fourteen head, lying in the sun at noon, on the level top of a low
butte, all noses pointing up the wind.

Output:
We stole up within range and
fired.


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Input:
We stole up within range and
fired.

Output:
At the instant the first shot rang out up sprang every buffalo as
if he had been thrown upon his feet by steel springs, and in a second's
time the whole bunch was dashing away from us with the speed of
race-horses.


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Input:
At the instant the first shot rang out up sprang every buffalo as
if he had been thrown upon his feet by steel springs, and in a second's
time the whole bunch was dashing away from us with the speed of
race-horses.

Output:
Our buffalo-hunter declared that in chasing buffaloes we could count
with certainty upon their always running against the wind, for this had
always been their habit.


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Input:
Our buffalo-hunter declared that in chasing buffaloes we could count
with certainty upon their always running against the wind, for this had
always been their habit.

Output:
Although this was once their habit, we soon
found that those who now represent the survival of the fittest have
learned better wisdom, and now run (1) away from their pursuer and (2)
toward the best hiding place.


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Input:
Although this was once their habit, we soon
found that those who now represent the survival of the fittest have
learned better wisdom, and now run (1) away from their pursuer and (2)
toward the best hiding place.

Output:
Now they pay no attention whatever to the
direction of the wind, and if a pursuer follows straight behind, a
buffalo may change his course three or four times in a 10-mile chase.


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Input:
Now they pay no attention whatever to the
direction of the wind, and if a pursuer follows straight behind, a
buffalo may change his course three or four times in a 10-mile chase.

Output:
An
old bull once led one of our hunters around three-quarters of a circle
which had a diameter of 5 or 6 miles.


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Input:
An
old bull once led one of our hunters around three-quarters of a circle
which had a diameter of 5 or 6 miles.

Output:
The last buffaloes were mentally as capable of taking care of themselves
as any animals I ever hunted.


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Input:
The last buffaloes were mentally as capable of taking care of themselves
as any animals I ever hunted.

Output:
The power of original reasoning which they
manifested in scattering all over a given tract of rough country, like
hostile Indians when hotly pressed by soldiers, in the Indian-like
manner in which they hid from sight in deep hollows, and, as we finally
proved, in _grazing only in ravines and hollows_, proved conclusively
that _


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Input:
The power of original reasoning which they
manifested in scattering all over a given tract of rough country, like
hostile Indians when hotly pressed by soldiers, in the Indian-like
manner in which they hid from sight in deep hollows, and, as we finally
proved, in _grazing only in ravines and hollows_, proved conclusively
that _

Output: but for the use of fire-arms_


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Input: but for the use of fire-arms_

Output:
those very buffaloes would have been
actually safe from harm by man, and that they would have increased
indefinitely.


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Input:
those very buffaloes would have been
actually safe from harm by man, and that they would have increased
indefinitely.

Output:
As they were then, the Indians' arrows and spears could
never have been brought to bear upon them, save in rare instances, for
they had thoroughly learned to dread man and fly from him for their
lives.


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Input:
As they were then, the Indians' arrows and spears could
never have been brought to bear upon them, save in rare instances, for
they had thoroughly learned to dread man and fly from him for their
lives.

Output:
Could those buffaloes have been protected from rifles and
revolvers the resultant race would have displayed far more active mental
powers, keener vision, and finer physique than the extinguished race
possessed.


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Input:
Could those buffaloes have been protected from rifles and
revolvers the resultant race would have displayed far more active mental
powers, keener vision, and finer physique than the extinguished race
possessed.

Output:
In fleeing from an enemy the buffalo ran against the wind, in order that
his keen scent might save him from the disaster of running upon new
enemies; which was an idea wholly his own, and not copied by any other
animal so far as known.


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Input:
In fleeing from an enemy the buffalo ran against the wind, in order that
his keen scent might save him from the disaster of running upon new
enemies; which was an idea wholly his own, and not copied by any other
animal so far as known.

Output:
But it must be admitted that the buffalo of the past was very often a
most stupid reasoner.


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Input:
But it must be admitted that the buffalo of the past was very often a
most stupid reasoner.

Output:
He would deliberately walk into a quicksand,
where hundreds of his companions were already ingulfed and in their
death-struggle.


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Input:
He would deliberately walk into a quicksand,
where hundreds of his companions were already ingulfed and in their
death-struggle.

Output:
He would quit feeding, run half a mile, and rush
headlong into a moving train of cars that happened to come between him
and the main herd on the other side of the track.


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Input:
He would quit feeding, run half a mile, and rush
headlong into a moving train of cars that happened to come between him
and the main herd on the other side of the track.

Output:
He allowed himself to
be impounded and slaughtered by a howling mob in a rudely constructed
pen, which a combined effort on the part of three or four old bulls
would have utterly demolished at any point.


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Input:
He allowed himself to
be impounded and slaughtered by a howling mob in a rudely constructed
pen, which a combined effort on the part of three or four old bulls
would have utterly demolished at any point.

Output:
A herd of a thousand
buffaloes would allow an armed hunter to gallop into their midst, very
often within arm's-length, when any of the bulls nearest him might
easily have bowled him over and had him trampled to death in a moment.


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Input:
A herd of a thousand
buffaloes would allow an armed hunter to gallop into their midst, very
often within arm's-length, when any of the bulls nearest him might
easily have bowled him over and had him trampled to death in a moment.

Output:
The hunter who would ride in that manner into a herd of the Cape
buffaloes of Africa (_Bubalus caffer_) would be unhorsed and killed
before he had gone half a furlong.


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Input:
The hunter who would ride in that manner into a herd of the Cape
buffaloes of Africa (_Bubalus caffer_) would be unhorsed and killed
before he had gone half a furlong.

Output: (2) _


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Output:
Curiosity._--The buffalo of the past possessed but little
curiosity; he was too dull to entertain many unnecessary thoughts.


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Input:
Curiosity._--The buffalo of the past possessed but little
curiosity; he was too dull to entertain many unnecessary thoughts.

Output:
Had
he possessed more of this peculiar trait, which is the mark of an
inquiring mind, he would much sooner have accomplished a comprehension
of the dangers that proved his destruction.


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Input:
Had
he possessed more of this peculiar trait, which is the mark of an
inquiring mind, he would much sooner have accomplished a comprehension
of the dangers that proved his destruction.

Output:
His stolid indifference to
everything he did not understand cost him his existence, although in
later years he displayed more interest in his environment.


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Input:
His stolid indifference to
everything he did not understand cost him his existence, although in
later years he displayed more interest in his environment.

Output:
On one
occasion in hunting I staked my success with an old bull I was pursuing
on the chance that when he reached the crest of a ridge his curiosity
would prompt him to pause an instant to look at me.


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Input:
On one
occasion in hunting I staked my success with an old bull I was pursuing
on the chance that when he reached the crest of a ridge his curiosity
would prompt him to pause an instant to look at me.

Output:
Up to that moment he
had had only one quick glance at me before he started to run.


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Input:
Up to that moment he
had had only one quick glance at me before he started to run.

Output:
As he
climbed the slope ahead of me, in full view, I dismounted and made ready
to fire the instant he should pause to look at me.


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Input:
As he
climbed the slope ahead of me, in full view, I dismounted and made ready
to fire the instant he should pause to look at me.

Output:
As I expected, he did
come to a fall stop on the crest of the ridge, and turned half around to
look at me.


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Input:
As I expected, he did
come to a fall stop on the crest of the ridge, and turned half around to
look at me.

Output:
But for his curiosity I should have been obliged to fire at
him under very serious disadvantages.


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Input:
But for his curiosity I should have been obliged to fire at
him under very serious disadvantages.

Output: (3) _Fear._--With the buffalo, fear of man is now the ruling passion.


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Input: (3) _Fear._--With the buffalo, fear of man is now the ruling passion.

Output:
Says Colonel Dodge: "He is as timid about his flank and rear as a raw
recruit.


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Input:
Says Colonel Dodge: "He is as timid about his flank and rear as a raw
recruit.

Output:
When traveling nothing in front stops him, but an unusual
object in the rear will send him to the right-about [toward the main
body of the herd] at the top of his speed.


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Input:
When traveling nothing in front stops him, but an unusual
object in the rear will send him to the right-about [toward the main
body of the herd] at the top of his speed.

Output:
"

(4) _Courage._--It was very seldom that the buffalo evinced any courage
save that of despair, which even cowards possess.


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Input:
"

(4) _Courage._--It was very seldom that the buffalo evinced any courage
save that of despair, which even cowards possess.

Output:
Unconscious of his
strength, his only thought was flight, and it was only when brought to
bay that he was ready to fight.


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Input:
Unconscious of his
strength, his only thought was flight, and it was only when brought to
bay that he was ready to fight.

Output:
Now and then, however, in the chase, the
buffalo turned upon his pursuer and overthrew horse and rider.


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Input:
Now and then, however, in the chase, the
buffalo turned upon his pursuer and overthrew horse and rider.

Output:
Sometimes
the tables were completely turned, and the hunter found his only safety
in flight.


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Input:
Sometimes
the tables were completely turned, and the hunter found his only safety
in flight.

Output:
During the buffalo slaughter the butchers sometimes had
narrow escapes from buffaloes supposed to be dead or mortally wounded,
and a story comes from the great northern range south of Glendive of a
hunter who was killed by an old bull whose tongue he had actually cut
out in the belief that he was dead.


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Input:
During the buffalo slaughter the butchers sometimes had
narrow escapes from buffaloes supposed to be dead or mortally wounded,
and a story comes from the great northern range south of Glendive of a
hunter who was killed by an old bull whose tongue he had actually cut
out in the belief that he was dead.

Output:
Sometimes buffalo cows display genuine courage in remaining with their
calves in the presence of danger, although in most cases they left their
offspring to their fate.


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Input:
Sometimes buffalo cows display genuine courage in remaining with their
calves in the presence of danger, although in most cases they left their
offspring to their fate.

Output:
During a hunt for live buffalo calves,
undertaken by Mr. C. J. Jones of Garden City, Kans., in 1886, and very
graphically described by a staff correspondent of the American Field in
a series of articles in that journal under the title of "The Last of the
Buffalo," the following remarkable incident occurred:[41]


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Input:
During a hunt for live buffalo calves,
undertaken by Mr. C. J. Jones of Garden City, Kans., in 1886, and very
graphically described by a staff correspondent of the American Field in
a series of articles in that journal under the title of "The Last of the
Buffalo," the following remarkable incident occurred:[41]

Output: [Note 41: American Field, July 24, 1886, p. 78.]


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Input: [Note 41: American Field, July 24, 1886, p. 78.]

Output:
"The last calf was caught by Carter, who roped it neatly as Mr. Jones
cut it out of the herd and turned it toward him.


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Input:
"The last calf was caught by Carter, who roped it neatly as Mr. Jones
cut it out of the herd and turned it toward him.

Output:
This was a fine heifer
calf, and was apparently the idol of her mother's heart, for the latter
came very near making a casualty the price of the capture.


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Input:
This was a fine heifer
calf, and was apparently the idol of her mother's heart, for the latter
came very near making a casualty the price of the capture.

Output:
As soon as
the calf was roped, the old cow left the herd and charged on Carter
viciously, as he bent over his victim.


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Input:
As soon as
the calf was roped, the old cow left the herd and charged on Carter
viciously, as he bent over his victim.

Output:
Seeing the danger, Mr. Jones rode
in at just the nick of time, and drove the cow off for a moment; but she
returned again and again, and finally began charging him whenever he
came near; so that, much as he regretted it, he had to shoot her with
his revolver, which he did, killing her almost immediately.


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Input:
Seeing the danger, Mr. Jones rode
in at just the nick of time, and drove the cow off for a moment; but she
returned again and again, and finally began charging him whenever he
came near; so that, much as he regretted it, he had to shoot her with
his revolver, which he did, killing her almost immediately.

Output:
"

The mothers of the thirteen other calves that were caught by Mr. Jones's
party allowed their offspring to be "cut out," lassoed, and tied, while
they themselves devoted all their energies to leaving them as far behind
as possible.


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Input:
"

The mothers of the thirteen other calves that were caught by Mr. Jones's
party allowed their offspring to be "cut out," lassoed, and tied, while
they themselves devoted all their energies to leaving them as far behind
as possible.

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Output:
Affection._--While the buffalo cows manifested a fair degree of
affection for their young, the adult bulls of the herd often displayed a
sense of responsibility for the safety of the calves that was admirable,
to say the least.


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Input:
Affection._--While the buffalo cows manifested a fair degree of
affection for their young, the adult bulls of the herd often displayed a
sense of responsibility for the safety of the calves that was admirable,
to say the least.

Output:
Those who have had opportunities for watching large
herds tell us that whenever wolves approached and endeavored to reach a
calf the old bulls would immediately interpose and drive the enemy away.


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Those who have had opportunities for watching large
herds tell us that whenever wolves approached and endeavored to reach a
calf the old bulls would immediately interpose and drive the enemy away.

Output:
It was a well-defined habit for the bulls to form the outer circle of
every small group or section of a great herd, with the calves in the
center, well guarded from the wolves, which regarded them as their most
choice prey.


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Input:
It was a well-defined habit for the bulls to form the outer circle of
every small group or section of a great herd, with the calves in the
center, well guarded from the wolves, which regarded them as their most
choice prey.

Output:
Colonel Dodge records a remarkable incident in illustration of the
manner in which the bull buffaloes protected the calves of the herd.[42]


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Colonel Dodge records a remarkable incident in illustration of the
manner in which the bull buffaloes protected the calves of the herd.[42]

Output: [Note 42: Plains of the Great West, p. 125.]


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Input: [Note 42: Plains of the Great West, p. 125.]

Output:
"The duty of protecting the calves devolved almost entirely on the
bulls.


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Input:
"The duty of protecting the calves devolved almost entirely on the
bulls.

Output:
I have seen evidences of this many times, but the most remarkable
instance I have ever heard of was related to me by an army surgeon, who
was an eye-witness.


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Input:
I have seen evidences of this many times, but the most remarkable
instance I have ever heard of was related to me by an army surgeon, who
was an eye-witness.

Output:
"He was one evening returning to camp after a day's hunt, when his
attention was attracted by the curious action of a little knot of six or
eight buffalo.


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Input:
"He was one evening returning to camp after a day's hunt, when his
attention was attracted by the curious action of a little knot of six or
eight buffalo.

Output:
Approaching sufficiently near to see clearly, he
discovered that this little knot were all bulls, standing in a close
circle, with their heads outwards, while in a concentric circle at some
12 or 15 paces distant sat, licking their chaps in impatient expectancy,
at least a dozen large gray wolves (excepting man, the most dangerous
enemy of the buffalo).


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Input:
Approaching sufficiently near to see clearly, he
discovered that this little knot were all bulls, standing in a close
circle, with their heads outwards, while in a concentric circle at some
12 or 15 paces distant sat, licking their chaps in impatient expectancy,
at least a dozen large gray wolves (excepting man, the most dangerous
enemy of the buffalo).

Output: "The doctor determined to watch the performance.


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Input: "The doctor determined to watch the performance.

Output:
After a few moments
the knot broke up, and, still keeping in a compact mass, started on a
trot for the main herd, some half a mile oft".


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Input:
After a few moments
the knot broke up, and, still keeping in a compact mass, started on a
trot for the main herd, some half a mile oft".

Output:
To his very great
astonishment, the doctor now saw that the central and controlling figure
of this mass was a poor little calf so newly born as scarcely to be able
to walk.


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Input:
To his very great
astonishment, the doctor now saw that the central and controlling figure
of this mass was a poor little calf so newly born as scarcely to be able
to walk.

Output:
After going 50 or 100 paces the calf laid down, the bulls
disposed themselves in a circle as before, and the wolves, who had
trotted along on each side of their retreating supper, sat down and
licked their chaps again; and though the doctor did not see the finale,
it being late and the camp distant, he had no doubt that the noble
fathers did their whole duty by their offspring, and carried it safely
to the herd.


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Input:
After going 50 or 100 paces the calf laid down, the bulls
disposed themselves in a circle as before, and the wolves, who had
trotted along on each side of their retreating supper, sat down and
licked their chaps again; and though the doctor did not see the finale,
it being late and the camp distant, he had no doubt that the noble
fathers did their whole duty by their offspring, and carried it safely
to the herd.

Output:
"

(6) _Temper._--I have asked many old buffalo hunters for facts in regard
to the temper and disposition of herd buffaloes, and all agree that they
are exceedingly quiet, peace loving, and even indolent animals at all
times save during the rutting season.


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"

(6) _Temper._--I have asked many old buffalo hunters for facts in regard
to the temper and disposition of herd buffaloes, and all agree that they
are exceedingly quiet, peace loving, and even indolent animals at all
times save during the rutting season.

Output:
Says Colonel Dodge: "The habits of
the buffalo are almost identical with those of the domestic cattle.


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Input:
Says Colonel Dodge: "The habits of
the buffalo are almost identical with those of the domestic cattle.

Output:
Owing either to a more pacific disposition, or to the greater number of
bulls, there, is very little fighting, even at the season when it might
be expected.


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Input:
Owing either to a more pacific disposition, or to the greater number of
bulls, there, is very little fighting, even at the season when it might
be expected.

Output:
I have been among them for days, have watched their conduct
for hours at a time, and with the very best opportunities for
observation, but have never seen a regular combat between bulls.


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Input:
I have been among them for days, have watched their conduct
for hours at a time, and with the very best opportunities for
observation, but have never seen a regular combat between bulls.

Output:
They
frequently strike each other with their horns, but this seems to be a
mere expression of impatience at being crowded.


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They
frequently strike each other with their horns, but this seems to be a
mere expression of impatience at being crowded.


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Output:
In referring to the "running season" of the buffalo, Mr. Catlin says:
"It is no uncommon thing at this season, at these gatherings, to see
several thousands in a mass eddying and wheeling about under a cloud of
dust, which is raised by the bulls as they are pawing in the dirt, or
engaged in desperate combats, as they constantly are, plunging and
butting at each other in a most furious manner.


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Input:
In referring to the "running season" of the buffalo, Mr. Catlin says:
"It is no uncommon thing at this season, at these gatherings, to see
several thousands in a mass eddying and wheeling about under a cloud of
dust, which is raised by the bulls as they are pawing in the dirt, or
engaged in desperate combats, as they constantly are, plunging and
butting at each other in a most furious manner.

Output:
"

On the whole, the disposition of the buffalo is anything but vicious.


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"

On the whole, the disposition of the buffalo is anything but vicious.

Output:
Both sexes yield with surprising readiness to the restraints of
captivity, and in a remarkably short time become, if taken young, as
fully domesticated as ordinary cattle.


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Input:
Both sexes yield with surprising readiness to the restraints of
captivity, and in a remarkably short time become, if taken young, as
fully domesticated as ordinary cattle.

Output:
Buffalo calves are as easily
tamed as domestic ones, and make very interesting pets.


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Input:
Buffalo calves are as easily
tamed as domestic ones, and make very interesting pets.

Output:
A prominent
trait of character in the captive buffalo is a mulish obstinacy or
headstrong perseverance under certain circumstances that is often very
annoying.


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Input:
A prominent
trait of character in the captive buffalo is a mulish obstinacy or
headstrong perseverance under certain circumstances that is often very
annoying.

Output:
When a buffalo makes up his mind to go through a fence, he is
very apt to go through, either peaceably or by force, as occasion
requires.


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Input:
When a buffalo makes up his mind to go through a fence, he is
very apt to go through, either peaceably or by force, as occasion
requires.

Output:
Fortunately, however, the captive animals usually accept a
fence in the proper spirit, and treat it with a fair degree of respect.

VIII.


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Input:
Fortunately, however, the captive animals usually accept a
fence in the proper spirit, and treat it with a fair degree of respect.

VIII.

Output: VALUE OF THE BUFFALO TO MAN.


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Input: VALUE OF THE BUFFALO TO MAN.

Output:
It may fairly be supposed that if the people of this country could have
been made to realize the immense money value of the great buffalo herds
as they existed in 1870, a vigorous and successful effort would have
been made to regulate and restrict the slaughter.


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Input:
It may fairly be supposed that if the people of this country could have
been made to realize the immense money value of the great buffalo herds
as they existed in 1870, a vigorous and successful effort would have
been made to regulate and restrict the slaughter.

Output:
The fur seal of
Alaska, of which about 100,000 are killed annually for their skins,
yield an annual revenue to the Government of $100,000 and add $900,000
more to the actual wealth of the United States.


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Input:
The fur seal of
Alaska, of which about 100,000 are killed annually for their skins,
yield an annual revenue to the Government of $100,000 and add $900,000
more to the actual wealth of the United States.

Output:
It pays to protect those
seals, and we mean to protect them against all comers who seek their
unrestricted slaughter, no matter whether the poachers be American,
English, Russian, or Canadian.


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Input:
It pays to protect those
seals, and we mean to protect them against all comers who seek their
unrestricted slaughter, no matter whether the poachers be American,
English, Russian, or Canadian.

Output:
It would be folly to do otherwise, and if
those who would exterminate the fur seal by shooting them in the water
will not desist for the telling, then they must by the compelling.


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Input:
It would be folly to do otherwise, and if
those who would exterminate the fur seal by shooting them in the water
will not desist for the telling, then they must by the compelling.

Output:
The fur seal is a good investment for the United States, and their
number is not diminishing.


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Input:
The fur seal is a good investment for the United States, and their
number is not diminishing.

Output:
As the buffalo herds existed in 1870, 500,000
head of bulls, young and old, could have been killed every year for a
score of years without sensibly diminishing the size of the herds.


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Input:
As the buffalo herds existed in 1870, 500,000
head of bulls, young and old, could have been killed every year for a
score of years without sensibly diminishing the size of the herds.

Output:
At a
low estimate these could easily have been made to yield various products
worth $5 each, as follows: Kobe, $2.50; tongue, 20 cents; meat of
hindquarters, $2; bones, horns, and hoofs, 25 cents; total, $5.


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Input:
At a
low estimate these could easily have been made to yield various products
worth $5 each, as follows: Kobe, $2.50; tongue, 20 cents; meat of
hindquarters, $2; bones, horns, and hoofs, 25 cents; total, $5.

Output:
And the
amount annually added to the wealth of the United States would have been
$2,500,000.


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Input:
And the
amount annually added to the wealth of the United States would have been
$2,500,000.

Output:
On all the robes taken for the market, say, 200,000, the Government
could have collected a tax of 50 cents each, which would have yielded a
sum doubly sufficient to have maintained a force of mounted police fully
competent to enforce the laws regulating the slaughter.


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Input:
On all the robes taken for the market, say, 200,000, the Government
could have collected a tax of 50 cents each, which would have yielded a
sum doubly sufficient to have maintained a force of mounted police fully
competent to enforce the laws regulating the slaughter.

Output:
Had a contract
for the protection of the buffalo been offered at $50,000 per annum, ay,
or even half that sum, an army of competent men would have competed for
it every year, and it could have been carried out to the letter.


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Input:
Had a contract
for the protection of the buffalo been offered at $50,000 per annum, ay,
or even half that sum, an army of competent men would have competed for
it every year, and it could have been carried out to the letter.

Output:
But, as
yet, the American people have not learned to spend money for the
protection of valuable game; and by the time they do learn it, there
will be no game to protect.


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Input:
But, as
yet, the American people have not learned to spend money for the
protection of valuable game; and by the time they do learn it, there
will be no game to protect.

Output:
Even despite the enormous waste of raw material that ensued in the
utilization of the buffalo product, the total cash value of all the
material derived from this source, if it could only be reckoned up,
would certainly amount to many millions of dollars--perhaps twenty
millions, all told.


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Input:
Even despite the enormous waste of raw material that ensued in the
utilization of the buffalo product, the total cash value of all the
material derived from this source, if it could only be reckoned up,
would certainly amount to many millions of dollars--perhaps twenty
millions, all told.

Output:
This estimate may, to some, seem high, but when we
stop to consider that in eight years, from 1876 to 1884, a single firm,
that of Messrs. J. & A. Boskowitz, 105 Greene street, New York, paid out
the enormous sum of $923,070 (nearly one million) for robes and hides,
and that in a single year (1882) another firm, that of Joseph Ullman,
165 Mercer street, New York, paid out $216,250 for robes and hides, it
may not seem so incredible.


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Input:
This estimate may, to some, seem high, but when we
stop to consider that in eight years, from 1876 to 1884, a single firm,
that of Messrs. J. & A. Boskowitz, 105 Greene street, New York, paid out
the enormous sum of $923,070 (nearly one million) for robes and hides,
and that in a single year (1882) another firm, that of Joseph Ullman,
165 Mercer street, New York, paid out $216,250 for robes and hides, it
may not seem so incredible.

Output:
Had there been a deliberate plan for the suppression of all statistics
relating to the slaughter of buffalo in the United States, and what it
yielded, the result could not have been more complete barrenness than
exists to-day in regard to this subject.


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Input:
Had there been a deliberate plan for the suppression of all statistics
relating to the slaughter of buffalo in the United States, and what it
yielded, the result could not have been more complete barrenness than
exists to-day in regard to this subject.

Output:
There is only one railway
company which kept its books in such a manner as to show the kind and
quantity of its business at that time.


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Input:
There is only one railway
company which kept its books in such a manner as to show the kind and
quantity of its business at that time.

Output:
Excepting this, nothing is known
definitely.


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Input:
Excepting this, nothing is known
definitely.

Output:
Fortunately, enough facts and figures were recorded during the hunting
operations of the Red River half-breeds to enable us, by bringing them
all together, to calculate with sufficient exactitude the value of the
buffalo to them from 1820 to 1840.


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Input:
Fortunately, enough facts and figures were recorded during the hunting
operations of the Red River half-breeds to enable us, by bringing them
all together, to calculate with sufficient exactitude the value of the
buffalo to them from 1820 to 1840.

Output:
The result ought to be of interest to
all who think it is not worth while to spend money in preserving our
characteristic game animals.


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The result ought to be of interest to
all who think it is not worth while to spend money in preserving our
characteristic game animals.

Output:
In Ross's "Red River Settlement," pp. 242-273, and Schoolcraft's "North
American Indians," Part iv, pp. 101-110, are given detailed accounts of
the conduct and results of two hunting expeditions by the half-breeds,
with many valuable statistics.


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Input:
In Ross's "Red River Settlement," pp. 242-273, and Schoolcraft's "North
American Indians," Part iv, pp. 101-110, are given detailed accounts of
the conduct and results of two hunting expeditions by the half-breeds,
with many valuable statistics.

Output: On this data we base our calculation.


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Input: On this data we base our calculation.

Output:
Taking the result of one particular day's slaughter as an index to the
methods of the hunters in utilizing the products of the chase, we find
that while "not less than 2,500 animals were killed," out of that number
only 375 bags of pemmican and 240 bales of dried meat were made.


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Input:
Taking the result of one particular day's slaughter as an index to the
methods of the hunters in utilizing the products of the chase, we find
that while "not less than 2,500 animals were killed," out of that number
only 375 bags of pemmican and 240 bales of dried meat were made.

Output:
"Now,"
says Mr. Ross," making all due allowance for waste, 750 animals would
have been ample for such a result.


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Input:
"Now,"
says Mr. Ross," making all due allowance for waste, 750 animals would
have been ample for such a result.

Output:
What, then, we might ask, became of
the remaining 1,750!


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What, then, we might ask, became of
the remaining 1,750!


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Output:
* Scarcely one-third in number of the animals
killed is turned to account.


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* Scarcely one-third in number of the animals
killed is turned to account.


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Output:
A bundle of dried meat weighs 60 to 70 pounds, and a bag of pemmican 100
to 110 pounds.


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Input:
A bundle of dried meat weighs 60 to 70 pounds, and a bag of pemmican 100
to 110 pounds.

Output:
If economically worked up, a whole buffalo cow yields
half a bag of pemmican (about 55 pounds) and three-fourths of a bundle
of dried meat (say 45 pounds).


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Input:
If economically worked up, a whole buffalo cow yields
half a bag of pemmican (about 55 pounds) and three-fourths of a bundle
of dried meat (say 45 pounds).

Output:
The most economical calculate that from
eight to ten cows are required to load a single Red River cart.


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Input:
The most economical calculate that from
eight to ten cows are required to load a single Red River cart.

Output:
The
proceeds of 1,776 cows once formed 228 bags of pemmican, 1,213 bales of
dried meat, 166 sacks of tallow, each weighing 200 pounds, 556 bladders
of marrow weighing 12 pounds each, and the value of the whole was
$8,160.


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The
proceeds of 1,776 cows once formed 228 bags of pemmican, 1,213 bales of
dried meat, 166 sacks of tallow, each weighing 200 pounds, 556 bladders
of marrow weighing 12 pounds each, and the value of the whole was
$8,160.

Output:
The total of the above statement is 132,057 pounds of buffalo
product for 1,776 cows, or within a fraction of 75 pounds to each cow.


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Input:
The total of the above statement is 132,057 pounds of buffalo
product for 1,776 cows, or within a fraction of 75 pounds to each cow.

Output: The bulls and young animals killed were not accounted for.


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Input: The bulls and young animals killed were not accounted for.

Output:
The expedition described by Mr. Ross contained 1,210 carts and 620
hunters, and returned with 1,089,000 pounds of meat, making 900 pounds
for each cart, and 200 pounds for each individual in the expedition, of
all ages and both sexes.


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Input:
The expedition described by Mr. Ross contained 1,210 carts and 620
hunters, and returned with 1,089,000 pounds of meat, making 900 pounds
for each cart, and 200 pounds for each individual in the expedition, of
all ages and both sexes.

Output:
Allowing, as already ascertained, that of the
above quantity of product every 75 pounds represents one cow saved and
two and one third buffaloes wasted, it means that 14,520 buffaloes were
killed and utilized and 33,250 buffaloes were killed and eaten fresh or
wasted, and 47,770 buffaloes were killed by 620 hunters, or an average
of 77 buffaloes to each hunter.


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Input:
Allowing, as already ascertained, that of the
above quantity of product every 75 pounds represents one cow saved and
two and one third buffaloes wasted, it means that 14,520 buffaloes were
killed and utilized and 33,250 buffaloes were killed and eaten fresh or
wasted, and 47,770 buffaloes were killed by 620 hunters, or an average
of 77 buffaloes to each hunter.

Output:
The total number of buffaloes killed for
each cart was 39.


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Input:
The total number of buffaloes killed for
each cart was 39.

Output:
Allowing, what was actually the case, that every buffalo killed would,
if properly cared for, have yielded meat, fat, and robe worth at least
$5, the total value of the buffaloes slaughtered by that expedition
amounted to $258,850, and of which the various products actually
utilized represented a cash value of $72,001 added to the wealth of the
Red River half-breeds.


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Input:
Allowing, what was actually the case, that every buffalo killed would,
if properly cared for, have yielded meat, fat, and robe worth at least
$5, the total value of the buffaloes slaughtered by that expedition
amounted to $258,850, and of which the various products actually
utilized represented a cash value of $72,001 added to the wealth of the
Red River half-breeds.

Output:
In 1820 there went 540 carts to the buffalo plains; in 1825, 680; in
1830, 820; in 1835, 970; in 1840, 1,210.


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Input:
In 1820 there went 540 carts to the buffalo plains; in 1825, 680; in
1830, 820; in 1835, 970; in 1840, 1,210.

Output:
From 1820 to 1825 the average for each year was 610; from 1825 to 1830,
750; from 1830 to 1835, 895; from 1835 to 1840, 1,000.


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Input:
From 1820 to 1825 the average for each year was 610; from 1825 to 1830,
750; from 1830 to 1835, 895; from 1835 to 1840, 1,000.

Output:
Accepting the statements of eye-witnesses that for every buffalo killed
two and one-third buffaloes are wasted or eaten on the spot, and that
every loaded cart represented thirty-nine dead buffaloes which were
worth when utilized $5 each, we have the following series of totals:

From 1820 to 1825 five expeditions, of 610 carts each, killed 118,950
buffaloes, worth $594,750.

From 1825 to 1830 five expeditions, of 750 carts each, killed 146,250
buffaloes, worth $731,250.


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Input:
Accepting the statements of eye-witnesses that for every buffalo killed
two and one-third buffaloes are wasted or eaten on the spot, and that
every loaded cart represented thirty-nine dead buffaloes which were
worth when utilized $5 each, we have the following series of totals:

From 1820 to 1825 five expeditions, of 610 carts each, killed 118,950
buffaloes, worth $594,750.

From 1825 to 1830 five expeditions, of 750 carts each, killed 146,250
buffaloes, worth $731,250.

Output:
From 1830 to 1835 five expeditions, of 895 carts each, killed 174,525
buffaloes, worth $872,625.


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Input:
From 1830 to 1835 five expeditions, of 895 carts each, killed 174,525
buffaloes, worth $872,625.

Output:
From 1835 to 1840 five expeditions, of 1,090 carts each, killed 212,550
buffaloes, worth $1,062,750.


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Input:
From 1835 to 1840 five expeditions, of 1,090 carts each, killed 212,550
buffaloes, worth $1,062,750.

Output:
Total number of buffaloes killed in twenty years,[43] $652,275; total
value of buffaloes killed in twenty years,[43] $3,261,375; total value
of the product utilized[43] and added to the wealth of the settlements,
$978,412.


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Total number of buffaloes killed in twenty years,[43] $652,275; total
value of buffaloes killed in twenty years,[43] $3,261,375; total value
of the product utilized[43] and added to the wealth of the settlements,
$978,412.

Output: [Note 43: By the Red River half-breeds only.]


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Input: [Note 43: By the Red River half-breeds only.]

Output:
The Eskimo has his seal, which yields nearly everything that he
requires; the Korak of Siberia depends for his very existence upon his
reindeer; the Ceylon native has the cocoa-nut palm, which leaves him
little else to desire, and the North American Indian had the American,
bison.


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Input:
The Eskimo has his seal, which yields nearly everything that he
requires; the Korak of Siberia depends for his very existence upon his
reindeer; the Ceylon native has the cocoa-nut palm, which leaves him
little else to desire, and the North American Indian had the American,
bison.

Output:
If any animal was ever designed by the hand of nature for the
express purpose of supplying, at one stroke, nearly all the wants of an
entire race, surely the buffalo was intended for the Indian.


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Input:
If any animal was ever designed by the hand of nature for the
express purpose of supplying, at one stroke, nearly all the wants of an
entire race, surely the buffalo was intended for the Indian.

Output:
And right well was this gift of the gods utilized by the children of
nature to whom it came.


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Input:
And right well was this gift of the gods utilized by the children of
nature to whom it came.

Output:
Up to the time when the United States Government
began to support our Western Indians by the payment of annuities and
furnishing quarterly supplies of food, clothing, blankets, cloth, tents,
etc., the buffalo had been the main dependence of more than 50,000
Indians who inhabited the buffalo range and its environs.


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Input:
Up to the time when the United States Government
began to support our Western Indians by the payment of annuities and
furnishing quarterly supplies of food, clothing, blankets, cloth, tents,
etc., the buffalo had been the main dependence of more than 50,000
Indians who inhabited the buffalo range and its environs.

Output:
Of the many
different uses to which the buffalo and his various parts were, put by
the red man, the following were the principal ones:


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Input:
Of the many
different uses to which the buffalo and his various parts were, put by
the red man, the following were the principal ones:

Output:
The body of the buffalo yielded fresh meat, of which thousands of tons
were consumed; dried meat, prepared in summer for winter use; pemmican
(also prepared in summer), of meat, fat, and berries; tallow, made up
into large balls or sacks, and kept in store; marrow, preserved in
bladders; and tongues, dried and smoked, and eaten as a delicacy.


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The body of the buffalo yielded fresh meat, of which thousands of tons
were consumed; dried meat, prepared in summer for winter use; pemmican
(also prepared in summer), of meat, fat, and berries; tallow, made up
into large balls or sacks, and kept in store; marrow, preserved in
bladders; and tongues, dried and smoked, and eaten as a delicacy.

Output:
The skin of the buffalo yielded a robe, dressed with the hair on, for
clothing and bedding; a hide, dressed without the hair, which made a
teepee cover, when a number were sewn together; boats, when sewn
together in a green state, over a wooden framework.


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The skin of the buffalo yielded a robe, dressed with the hair on, for
clothing and bedding; a hide, dressed without the hair, which made a
teepee cover, when a number were sewn together; boats, when sewn
together in a green state, over a wooden framework.

Output:
Shields, made from
the thickest portions, as rawhide; ropes, made up as rawhide; clothing
of many kinds; bags for use in traveling; coffins, or winding sheets for
the dead, etc.


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Input:
Shields, made from
the thickest portions, as rawhide; ropes, made up as rawhide; clothing
of many kinds; bags for use in traveling; coffins, or winding sheets for
the dead, etc.

Output:
Other portions utilized were sinews, which furnished fiber for ropes,
thread, bow-strings, snow-shoe webs, etc.; hair, which was sometimes
made into belts and ornaments; "buffalo chips," which formed a valuable
and highly-prized fuel; bones, from which many articles of use and
ornament were made; horns, which were made into spoons, drinking
vessels, etc.


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Input:
Other portions utilized were sinews, which furnished fiber for ropes,
thread, bow-strings, snow-shoe webs, etc.; hair, which was sometimes
made into belts and ornaments; "buffalo chips," which formed a valuable
and highly-prized fuel; bones, from which many articles of use and
ornament were made; horns, which were made into spoons, drinking
vessels, etc.

Output:
After the United States Government began to support the buffalo-hunting
Indians with annuities and supplies, the woolen blanket and canvas tent
took the place of the buffalo robe and the skin-covered teepee, and
"Government beef" took the place of buffalo meat.


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Input:
After the United States Government began to support the buffalo-hunting
Indians with annuities and supplies, the woolen blanket and canvas tent
took the place of the buffalo robe and the skin-covered teepee, and
"Government beef" took the place of buffalo meat.

Output:
But the slaughter of
buffaloes went on just the same, and the robes and hides taken were
traded for useless and often harmful luxuries, such as canned
provisions, fancy knickknacks, whisky, fire-arms of the most approved
pattern, and quantities of fixed ammunition.


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Input:
But the slaughter of
buffaloes went on just the same, and the robes and hides taken were
traded for useless and often harmful luxuries, such as canned
provisions, fancy knickknacks, whisky, fire-arms of the most approved
pattern, and quantities of fixed ammunition.

Output:
During the last ten years
of the existence of the herds it is an open question whether the buffalo
did not do our Indians more harm than good.


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Input:
During the last ten years
of the existence of the herds it is an open question whether the buffalo
did not do our Indians more harm than good.

Output:
Amongst the Crows, who were
liberally provided for by the Government, horse racing was a common
pastime, and the stakes were usually dressed buffalo robes.[44]


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Input:
Amongst the Crows, who were
liberally provided for by the Government, horse racing was a common
pastime, and the stakes were usually dressed buffalo robes.[44]

Output:
[Note 44: On one occasion, which is doubtless still remembered with
bitterness by many a Crow of the Custer Agency, my old friend Jim
McNaney backed his horse Ogalalla against the horses of the whole Crow
tribe.


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[Note 44: On one occasion, which is doubtless still remembered with
bitterness by many a Crow of the Custer Agency, my old friend Jim
McNaney backed his horse Ogalalla against the horses of the whole Crow
tribe.

Output:
The Crows forthwith formed a pool, which consisted of a huge pile
of buffalo robes, worth about $1,200, and with it backed their best
race-horse.


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Input:
The Crows forthwith formed a pool, which consisted of a huge pile
of buffalo robes, worth about $1,200, and with it backed their best
race-horse.

Output:
He was forthwith "beaten out of sight" by Ogalalla, and
another grievance was registered against the whites.]


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Input:
He was forthwith "beaten out of sight" by Ogalalla, and
another grievance was registered against the whites.]

Output:
The total disappearance of the buffalo has made no perceptible
difference in the annual cost of the Indians to the Government.


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Input:
The total disappearance of the buffalo has made no perceptible
difference in the annual cost of the Indians to the Government.

Output:
During
the years when buffaloes were numerous and robes for the purchase of
fire-arms and cartridges were plentiful, Indian wars were frequent, and
always costly to the Government.


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Input:
During
the years when buffaloes were numerous and robes for the purchase of
fire-arms and cartridges were plentiful, Indian wars were frequent, and
always costly to the Government.

Output:
The Indians were then quite
independent, because they could take the war path at any time and live
on buffalo indefinitely.


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Input:
The Indians were then quite
independent, because they could take the war path at any time and live
on buffalo indefinitely.

Output: Now, the case is very different.


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Input: Now, the case is very different.

Output:
The last time
Sitting Bull went on the war-path and was driven up into Manitoba, he
had the doubtful pleasure of living on his ponies and dogs until he
became utterly starved out.


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Input:
The last time
Sitting Bull went on the war-path and was driven up into Manitoba, he
had the doubtful pleasure of living on his ponies and dogs until he
became utterly starved out.

Output:
Since his last escapade, the Sioux have been
compelled to admit that the game is up and the war-path is open to them
no longer.


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Input:
Since his last escapade, the Sioux have been
compelled to admit that the game is up and the war-path is open to them
no longer.

Output:
Should they wish to do otherwise they know that they could
survive only by killing cattle, and cattle that are guarded by cowboys
and ranchmen are no man's game.


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Input:
Should they wish to do otherwise they know that they could
survive only by killing cattle, and cattle that are guarded by cowboys
and ranchmen are no man's game.

Output:
Therefore, while we no longer have to
pay for an annual campaign in force against hostile Indians, the total
absence of the buffalo brings upon the nation the entire support of the
Indian, and the cash outlay each year is as great as ever.


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Input:
Therefore, while we no longer have to
pay for an annual campaign in force against hostile Indians, the total
absence of the buffalo brings upon the nation the entire support of the
Indian, and the cash outlay each year is as great as ever.

Output:
The value of the American bison to civilized man can never be
calculated, nor even fairly estimated.


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Input:
The value of the American bison to civilized man can never be
calculated, nor even fairly estimated.

Output:
It may with safety be said,
however, that it has been probably tenfold greater than most persons
have ever supposed.


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Input:
It may with safety be said,
however, that it has been probably tenfold greater than most persons
have ever supposed.

Output:
It would be a work of years to gather statistics of
the immense bulk of robes and hides, undoubtedly amounting to millions
in the aggregate; the thousands of tons of meat, and the train-loads of
bones which have been actually utilized by man.


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Input:
It would be a work of years to gather statistics of
the immense bulk of robes and hides, undoubtedly amounting to millions
in the aggregate; the thousands of tons of meat, and the train-loads of
bones which have been actually utilized by man.

Output:
Nor can the effect of
the bison's presence upon the general development of the great West ever
be calculated.