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"Upon examining the specimen, I found it to be an old bull, apparently
smaller and very much blacker than the ones I had seen killed on the
plains only a day or so before.


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"Upon examining the specimen, I found it to be an old bull, apparently
smaller and very much blacker than the ones I had seen killed on the
plains only a day or so before.

Output:
Then I examined the first one I had
shot, as well as others which were killed by the packer from the same
bunch, and I came to the conclusion that they were typical
representatives of the variety known as the 'mountain buffalo,' a form
much more active in movement, of slighter limbs, blacker, and far more
dangerous to attack.


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Then I examined the first one I had
shot, as well as others which were killed by the packer from the same
bunch, and I came to the conclusion that they were typical
representatives of the variety known as the 'mountain buffalo,' a form
much more active in movement, of slighter limbs, blacker, and far more
dangerous to attack.

Output:
My opinion in the premises remains unaltered
to-day.


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Input:
My opinion in the premises remains unaltered
to-day.

Output:
In all this I may be mistaken, but it was also the opinion held
by the old buffalo hunter who accompanied me, and who at once remarked
when he saw them that they were 'mountain buffalo,' and not the plains
variety.


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Input:
In all this I may be mistaken, but it was also the opinion held
by the old buffalo hunter who accompanied me, and who at once remarked
when he saw them that they were 'mountain buffalo,' and not the plains
variety.


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* *

"These specimens were not actually measured by me in either case, and
their being considered smaller only rested upon my judging them by my
eye.


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"These specimens were not actually measured by me in either case, and
their being considered smaller only rested upon my judging them by my
eye.

Output:
But they were of a softer pelage, black, lighter in limb, and when
discovered were in the timber, on the side of the Big Horn Mountains.


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Input:
But they were of a softer pelage, black, lighter in limb, and when
discovered were in the timber, on the side of the Big Horn Mountains.

Output:
"

The band of bison in the Yellowstone Park must, of necessity, be of the
so-called "wood" or "mountain" variety, and if by any chance one of its
members ever dies of old age, it is to be hoped its skin may be
carefully preserved and sent to the National Museum to throw some
further light on this question.

11.


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"

The band of bison in the Yellowstone Park must, of necessity, be of the
so-called "wood" or "mountain" variety, and if by any chance one of its
members ever dies of old age, it is to be hoped its skin may be
carefully preserved and sent to the National Museum to throw some
further light on this question.

11.

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Output:
The shedding of the winter pelage._--In personal appearance the
buffalo is subject to striking, and even painful, variations, and the
estimate an observer forms of him is very apt to depend upon the time of
the year at which the observation is made.


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Input:
The shedding of the winter pelage._--In personal appearance the
buffalo is subject to striking, and even painful, variations, and the
estimate an observer forms of him is very apt to depend upon the time of
the year at which the observation is made.

Output:
Toward the end of the winter
the whole coat has become faded and bleached by the action of the sun,
wind, snow, and rain, until the freshness of its late autumn colors has
totally disappeared.


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Input:
Toward the end of the winter
the whole coat has become faded and bleached by the action of the sun,
wind, snow, and rain, until the freshness of its late autumn colors has
totally disappeared.

Output:
The bison takes on a seedy, weathered, and rusty
look.


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The bison takes on a seedy, weathered, and rusty
look.

Output:
But this is not a circumstance to what happens to him a little
later.


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But this is not a circumstance to what happens to him a little
later.

Output:
Promptly with the coming of the spring, if not even in the last
week of February, the buffalo begins the shedding of his winter coat.


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Input:
Promptly with the coming of the spring, if not even in the last
week of February, the buffalo begins the shedding of his winter coat.

Output:
It
is a long and difficult task, and with commendable energy he sets about
it at the earliest possible moment.


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It
is a long and difficult task, and with commendable energy he sets about
it at the earliest possible moment.

Output:
It lasts him more than half the
year, and is attended with many positive discomforts.


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Input:
It lasts him more than half the
year, and is attended with many positive discomforts.

Output:
The process of shedding is accomplished in two ways: by the new hair
growing into and forcing off the old, and by the old hair falling off in
great patches, leaving the skin bare.


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Input:
The process of shedding is accomplished in two ways: by the new hair
growing into and forcing off the old, and by the old hair falling off in
great patches, leaving the skin bare.

Output:
On the heavily-haired
portions--the head, neck, fore quarters, and hump--the old hair stops
growing, dies, and the new hair immediately starts through the skin and
forces it off.


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Input:
On the heavily-haired
portions--the head, neck, fore quarters, and hump--the old hair stops
growing, dies, and the new hair immediately starts through the skin and
forces it off.

Output:
The new hair grows so rapidly, and at the same time so
densely, that it forces itself into the old, becomes hopelessly
entangled with it, and in time actually lifts the old hair clear of the
skin.


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Input:
The new hair grows so rapidly, and at the same time so
densely, that it forces itself into the old, becomes hopelessly
entangled with it, and in time actually lifts the old hair clear of the
skin.

Output:
On the head the new hair is dark brown or black, but on the neck,
fore quarters, and hump it has at first, and indeed until it is 2 inches
in length, a peculiar gray or drab color, mixed with brown, totally
different from its final and natural color.


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On the head the new hair is dark brown or black, but on the neck,
fore quarters, and hump it has at first, and indeed until it is 2 inches
in length, a peculiar gray or drab color, mixed with brown, totally
different from its final and natural color.

Output:
The new hair starts first on
the head, but the actual shedding of the old hair is to be seen first
along the lower parts of the neck and between the fore legs.


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Input:
The new hair starts first on
the head, but the actual shedding of the old hair is to be seen first
along the lower parts of the neck and between the fore legs.

Output:
The
heavily-haired parts are never bare, but, on the contrary, the amount of
hair upon them is about the same all the year round.


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The
heavily-haired parts are never bare, but, on the contrary, the amount of
hair upon them is about the same all the year round.

Output:
The old and the new
hair cling together with provoking tenacity long after the old coat
should fall, and on several of the bulls we killed in October there were
patches of it still sticking tightly to the shoulders, from which it
had to be forcibly plucked away.


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Input:
The old and the new
hair cling together with provoking tenacity long after the old coat
should fall, and on several of the bulls we killed in October there were
patches of it still sticking tightly to the shoulders, from which it
had to be forcibly plucked away.

Output:
Under all such patches the new hair was
of a different color from that around them.


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Input:
Under all such patches the new hair was
of a different color from that around them.

Output:
The other process of shedding takes place on the body and hind quarters,
from which the old hair loosens and drops off in great woolly flakes a
foot square, more or less.


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Input:
The other process of shedding takes place on the body and hind quarters,
from which the old hair loosens and drops off in great woolly flakes a
foot square, more or less.

Output:
The shedding takes place very unevenly, the
old hair remaining much longer in some places than in others.


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The shedding takes place very unevenly, the
old hair remaining much longer in some places than in others.

Output:
During
April, May, and June the body and hind quarters present a most ludicrous
and even pitiful spectacle.


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Input:
During
April, May, and June the body and hind quarters present a most ludicrous
and even pitiful spectacle.

Output:
The island-like patches of persistent old
hair alternating with patches of bare brown skin are adorned (?) by
great ragged streamers of loose hair, which flutter in the wind like
signals of distress.


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Input:
The island-like patches of persistent old
hair alternating with patches of bare brown skin are adorned (?) by
great ragged streamers of loose hair, which flutter in the wind like
signals of distress.

Output:
Whoever sees a bison at this period is filled with
a desire to assist nature by plucking off the flying streamers of old
hair; but the bison never permits anything of the kind, however good
one's intentions may be.


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Input:
Whoever sees a bison at this period is filled with
a desire to assist nature by plucking off the flying streamers of old
hair; but the bison never permits anything of the kind, however good
one's intentions may be.

Output:
All efforts to dislodge the old hair are
resisted to the last extremity, and the buffalo generally acts as if the
intention were to deprive him of his skin itself.


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Input:
All efforts to dislodge the old hair are
resisted to the last extremity, and the buffalo generally acts as if the
intention were to deprive him of his skin itself.

Output:
By the end of June, if
not before, the body and hind quarters are free from the old hair, and
as bare as the hide of a hippopotamus.


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Input:
By the end of June, if
not before, the body and hind quarters are free from the old hair, and
as bare as the hide of a hippopotamus.

Output:
The naked skin has a shiny brown
appearance, and of course the external anatomy of the animal is very
distinctly revealed.


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Input:
The naked skin has a shiny brown
appearance, and of course the external anatomy of the animal is very
distinctly revealed.

Output:
But for the long hair on the fore quarters, neck,
and head the bison would lose all his dignity of appearance with his
hair.


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Input:
But for the long hair on the fore quarters, neck,
and head the bison would lose all his dignity of appearance with his
hair.

Output:
As it is, the handsome black head, which is black with new hair as
early as the first of May, redeems the animal from utter homeliness.


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Input:
As it is, the handsome black head, which is black with new hair as
early as the first of May, redeems the animal from utter homeliness.

Output:
After the shedding of the body hair, the naked skin of the buffalo is
burned by the sun and bitten by flies until he is compelled to seek a
pool of water, or even a bed of soft mud, in which to roll and make
himself comfortable.


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Input:
After the shedding of the body hair, the naked skin of the buffalo is
burned by the sun and bitten by flies until he is compelled to seek a
pool of water, or even a bed of soft mud, in which to roll and make
himself comfortable.

Output:
He wallows, not so much because he is so fond of
either water or mud, but in self-defense; and when he emerges from his
wallow, plastered with mud from head to tail, his degradation is
complete.


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Input:
He wallows, not so much because he is so fond of
either water or mud, but in self-defense; and when he emerges from his
wallow, plastered with mud from head to tail, his degradation is
complete.

Output:
He is then simply not fit to be seen, even by his best
friends.


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Input:
He is then simply not fit to be seen, even by his best
friends.

Output:
By the first of October, a complete and wonderful transformation has
taken place.


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Input:
By the first of October, a complete and wonderful transformation has
taken place.

Output:
The buffalo stands forth clothed in a complete new suit of
hair, fine, clean, sleek, and bright in color, not a speck of dirt nor a
lock awry anywhere.


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Input:
The buffalo stands forth clothed in a complete new suit of
hair, fine, clean, sleek, and bright in color, not a speck of dirt nor a
lock awry anywhere.

Output:
To be sure, it is as yet a trifle short on the body,
where it is not over an inch in length, and hardly that; but it is
growing rapidly and getting ready for winter.


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Input:
To be sure, it is as yet a trifle short on the body,
where it is not over an inch in length, and hardly that; but it is
growing rapidly and getting ready for winter.

Output:
From the 20th of November to the 20th of December the pelage is at its
very finest.


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Input:
From the 20th of November to the 20th of December the pelage is at its
very finest.

Output:
By the former date it has attained its full growth, its
colors are at their brightest, and nothing has been lost either by the
elements or by accidental causes.


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Input:
By the former date it has attained its full growth, its
colors are at their brightest, and nothing has been lost either by the
elements or by accidental causes.

Output:
To him who sees an adult bull at this
period, or near it, the grandeur of the animal is irresistibly felt.


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Input:
To him who sees an adult bull at this
period, or near it, the grandeur of the animal is irresistibly felt.

Output:
After seeing buffaloes of all ages in the spring and summer months the
contrast afforded by those seen in October, November, and December was
most striking and impressive.


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Input:
After seeing buffaloes of all ages in the spring and summer months the
contrast afforded by those seen in October, November, and December was
most striking and impressive.

Output:
In the later period, as different
individuals were wounded and brought to bay at close quarters, their
hair was so clean and well-kept, that more than once I was led to
exclaim: "He looks as if he had just been combed.


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Input:
In the later period, as different
individuals were wounded and brought to bay at close quarters, their
hair was so clean and well-kept, that more than once I was led to
exclaim: "He looks as if he had just been combed.

Output:
"

It must be remarked, however, that the long hair of the head and fore
quarters is disposed in locks or tufts, and to comb it in reality would
utterly destroy its natural and characteristic appearance.


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Input:
"

It must be remarked, however, that the long hair of the head and fore
quarters is disposed in locks or tufts, and to comb it in reality would
utterly destroy its natural and characteristic appearance.

Output:
Inasmuch as the pelage of the domesticated bison, the only
representatives of the species which will be found alive ten years
hence, will in all likelihood develop differently from that of the wild
animal, it may some time in the future be of interest to know the
length, by careful measurement, of the hair found on carefully-selected
typical wild specimens.


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Input:
Inasmuch as the pelage of the domesticated bison, the only
representatives of the species which will be found alive ten years
hence, will in all likelihood develop differently from that of the wild
animal, it may some time in the future be of interest to know the
length, by careful measurement, of the hair found on carefully-selected
typical wild specimens.

Output:
To this end the following measurements are
given.


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Input:
To this end the following measurements are
given.

Output:
It must be borne in mind that these specimens were not chosen
because their pelage was particularly luxuriant, but rather because they
are fine average specimens.


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Input:
It must be borne in mind that these specimens were not chosen
because their pelage was particularly luxuriant, but rather because they
are fine average specimens.

Output:
The hair of the adult bull is by no means as long as I have seen on a
bison, although perhaps not many have greatly surpassed it.


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Input:
The hair of the adult bull is by no means as long as I have seen on a
bison, although perhaps not many have greatly surpassed it.

Output:
It is with
the lower animals as with man--the length of the hairy covering is an
individual character only.


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Input:
It is with
the lower animals as with man--the length of the hairy covering is an
individual character only.

Output:
I have in my possession a tuft of hair, from
the frontlet of a rather small bull bison, which measures 221/2 inches
in length.


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Input:
I have in my possession a tuft of hair, from
the frontlet of a rather small bull bison, which measures 221/2 inches
in length.

Output:
The beard on the specimen from which this came was
correspondingly long, and the entire pelage was of wonderful length and
density.


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Input:
The beard on the specimen from which this came was
correspondingly long, and the entire pelage was of wonderful length and
density.

Output: LENGTH OF THE HAIR OF BISON AMERICANUS.


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Input: LENGTH OF THE HAIR OF BISON AMERICANUS.

Output:
[Measurements, in inches, of the pelage of the specimens composing the
group in the National Museum.]


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Input:
[Measurements, in inches, of the pelage of the specimens composing the
group in the National Museum.]

Output:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                    |Old    |Old     |Spike   |Young   |Yearling|Young |
|                    |bull,  |cow,    |bull,   |cow,    |calf,   |calf, |
|                    |killed |killed  |killed  |killed  |killed  |four


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Input:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                    |Old    |Old     |Spike   |Young   |Yearling|Young |
|                    |bull,  |cow,    |bull,   |cow,    |calf,   |calf, |
|                    |killed |killed  |killed  |killed  |killed  |four

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|
|                    |Dec.


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Input:
|
|                    |Dec.

Output: 6.|Nov.


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Output: 18.|Oct.


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Output: 14.|Oct.


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Output: 14.|Oct.


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Output:
31.|months|
|Length of:          |       |        |        |        |        |old.


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Input:
31.|months|
|Length of:          |       |        |        |        |        |old.


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Output:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on the shoulder|       |        |        |        |        |      |
|(over scapula)      |


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Input:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on the shoulder|       |        |        |        |        |      |
|(over scapula)      |

Output: 33/4


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Output: |   43/4   |   31/2   |   31/4   |   3    |  11/2  |


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Input: |   43/4   |   31/2   |   31/4   |   3    |  11/2  |

Output:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on top of hump |   61/2  |   7    |   51/4   |   51/2   |


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Input:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on top of hump |   61/2  |   7    |   51/4   |   51/2   |

Output: 41/2   |  2   |


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Input: 41/2   |  2   |

Output:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on the middle  |       |        |        |        |        |      |
|of the side         |   2   |   11/2   |   21/2   |   11/2   |


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Input:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on the middle  |       |        |        |        |        |      |
|of the side         |   2   |   11/2   |   21/2   |   11/2   |

Output: 21/4


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Output: |  11/4


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Input: |  11/4


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Output:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on the         |       |        |        |        |        |      |
|hind quarter        |   13/4


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Input:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on the         |       |        |        |        |        |      |
|hind quarter        |   13/4

Output: |   11/4   |    3/4   |    3/4   |   2    |  1   |


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Input: |   11/4   |    3/4   |    3/4   |   2    |  1   |

Output:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on the         |       |        |        |        |        |      |
|forehead            |  16   |   81/2   |   61/2   |   5    |   31/2   |   1/2  |


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Input:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|hair on the         |       |        |        |        |        |      |
|forehead            |  16   |   81/2   |   61/2   |   5    |   31/2   |   1/2  |


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Output: |the chin beard      |


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Input: |the chin beard      |

Output: 111/2  |   91/2   |


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Input: 111/2  |   91/2   |

Output: 63/4   |   5    |   5    |  0   |


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Input: 63/4   |   5    |   5    |  0   |


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Output: |the breast tuft     |   8   |   81/2   |   8    |   6    |   5    |  3   |


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Input: |the breast tuft     |   8   |   81/2   |   8    |   6    |   5    |  3   |

Output:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|tuft on fore leg    |


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Input:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|tuft on fore leg    |

Output: 101/2  |   8    |   8    |   41/2   |   3    |  11/2  |


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Input: 101/2  |   8    |   8    |   41/2   |   3    |  11/2  |

Output:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|the tail tuft       |  19   |  15    |  15    |  13    |   71/2   |


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Input:
+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+
|the tail tuft       |  19   |  15    |  15    |  13    |   71/2   |

Output: 41/2  |


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Input: 41/2  |

Output:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

_


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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

_

Output:
Albinism._--Cases of albinism in the buffalo were of extremely rare
occurrence.


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Input:
Albinism._--Cases of albinism in the buffalo were of extremely rare
occurrence.

Output:
I have met many old buffalo hunters, who had killed
thousands and seen scores of thousands of buffaloes, yet never had seen
a white one.


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Input:
I have met many old buffalo hunters, who had killed
thousands and seen scores of thousands of buffaloes, yet never had seen
a white one.

Output:
From all accounts it appears that not over ten or eleven
white buffaloes, or white buffalo skins, were ever seen by white men.


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Input:
From all accounts it appears that not over ten or eleven
white buffaloes, or white buffalo skins, were ever seen by white men.

Output: Pied individuals were occasionally obtained, but even they were rare.


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Input: Pied individuals were occasionally obtained, but even they were rare.

Output:
Albino buffaloes were always so highly prized that not a single one, so
far as I can learn, ever had the good fortune to attain adult size,
their appearance being so striking, in contrast with the other members
of the herd, as to draw upon them an unusual number of enemies, and
cause their speedy destruction.


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Input:
Albino buffaloes were always so highly prized that not a single one, so
far as I can learn, ever had the good fortune to attain adult size,
their appearance being so striking, in contrast with the other members
of the herd, as to draw upon them an unusual number of enemies, and
cause their speedy destruction.

Output:
At the New Orleans Exposition, in 1884-'85, the Territory of Dakota
exhibited, amongst other Western quadrupeds, the mounted skin of a
two-year-old buffalo which might fairly be called an albino.


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Input:
At the New Orleans Exposition, in 1884-'85, the Territory of Dakota
exhibited, amongst other Western quadrupeds, the mounted skin of a
two-year-old buffalo which might fairly be called an albino.

Output:
Although
not really white, it was of a uniform dirty cream-color, and showed not
a trace of the bison's normal color on any part of its body.


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Input:
Although
not really white, it was of a uniform dirty cream-color, and showed not
a trace of the bison's normal color on any part of its body.

Output: Lieut.


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Input: Lieut.

Output:
Col. S. C. Kellogg, U. S. Army, has on deposit in the National
Museum a tanned skin which is said to have come from a buffalo.


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Input:
Col. S. C. Kellogg, U. S. Army, has on deposit in the National
Museum a tanned skin which is said to have come from a buffalo.

Output:
It is
from an animal about one year old, and the hair upon it, which is short,
very curly or wavy, and rather coarse, is pure white.


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Input:
It is
from an animal about one year old, and the hair upon it, which is short,
very curly or wavy, and rather coarse, is pure white.

Output:
In length and
texture the hair does not in any one respect resemble the hair of a
yearling buffalo save in one particular,--along the median line of the
neck and hump there is a rather long, thin mane of hair, which has the
peculiar woolly appearance of genuine buffalo hair on those parts.


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Input:
In length and
texture the hair does not in any one respect resemble the hair of a
yearling buffalo save in one particular,--along the median line of the
neck and hump there is a rather long, thin mane of hair, which has the
peculiar woolly appearance of genuine buffalo hair on those parts.

Output:
On
the shoulder portions of the skin the hair is as short as on the hind
quarters.


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Input:
On
the shoulder portions of the skin the hair is as short as on the hind
quarters.

Output:
I am inclined to believe this rather remarkable specimen came
from a wild half-breed calf, the result of a cross between a white
domestic cow and a buffalo bull.


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I am inclined to believe this rather remarkable specimen came
from a wild half-breed calf, the result of a cross between a white
domestic cow and a buffalo bull.

Output:
At one time it was by no means uncommon
for small bunches of domestic cattle to enter herds of buffalo and
remain there permanently.


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Input:
At one time it was by no means uncommon
for small bunches of domestic cattle to enter herds of buffalo and
remain there permanently.

Output:
I have been informed that the late General Marcy possessed a white
buffalo skin.


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Input:
I have been informed that the late General Marcy possessed a white
buffalo skin.

Output:
If it is still in existence, and is really _white_, it is
to be hoped that so great a rarity may find a permanent abiding place in
some museum where the remains of _


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Input:
If it is still in existence, and is really _white_, it is
to be hoped that so great a rarity may find a permanent abiding place in
some museum where the remains of _

Output:
Bison americanus_ are properly
appreciated.


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Input:
Bison americanus_ are properly
appreciated.

Output: V. THE HABITS OF THE BUFFALO.


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Input: V. THE HABITS OF THE BUFFALO.

Output:
The history of the buffalo's daily life and habits should begin with the
"running season."


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Input:
The history of the buffalo's daily life and habits should begin with the
"running season."

Output:
This period occupied the months of August and
September, and was characterized by a degree of excitement and activity
throughout the entire herd quite foreign to the ease-loving and even
slothful nature which was so noticeable a feature of the bison's
character at all other times.


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Input:
This period occupied the months of August and
September, and was characterized by a degree of excitement and activity
throughout the entire herd quite foreign to the ease-loving and even
slothful nature which was so noticeable a feature of the bison's
character at all other times.

Output: The mating season occurred when the herd was on its summer range.


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Input: The mating season occurred when the herd was on its summer range.

Output:
The
spring calves were from two to four months old.


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Input:
The
spring calves were from two to four months old.

Output:
Through continued
feasting on the new crop of buffalo-grass and bunch-grass--the most
nutritious in the world, perhaps--every buffalo in the herd had grown
round-sided, fat, and vigorous.


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Input:
Through continued
feasting on the new crop of buffalo-grass and bunch-grass--the most
nutritious in the world, perhaps--every buffalo in the herd had grown
round-sided, fat, and vigorous.

Output:
The faded and weather-beaten suit of
winter hair had by that time fallen off and given place to the new coat
of dark gray and black, and, excepting for the shortness of his hair,
the buffalo was in prime condition.


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Input:
The faded and weather-beaten suit of
winter hair had by that time fallen off and given place to the new coat
of dark gray and black, and, excepting for the shortness of his hair,
the buffalo was in prime condition.

Output:
During the "running season," as it was called by the plainsmen, the
whole nature of the herd was completely changed.


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Input:
During the "running season," as it was called by the plainsmen, the
whole nature of the herd was completely changed.

Output:
Instead of being broken
up into countless small groups and dispersed over a vast extent of
territory, the herd came together in a dense and confused mass of many
thousand individuals, so closely congregated as to actually blacken the
face of the landscape.


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Input:
Instead of being broken
up into countless small groups and dispersed over a vast extent of
territory, the herd came together in a dense and confused mass of many
thousand individuals, so closely congregated as to actually blacken the
face of the landscape.

Output:
As if by a general and irresistible impulse,
every straggler would be drawn to the common center, and for miles on
every side of the great herd the country would be found entirely
deserted.


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Input:
As if by a general and irresistible impulse,
every straggler would be drawn to the common center, and for miles on
every side of the great herd the country would be found entirely
deserted.

Output:
At this time the herd itself became a seething mass of activity and
excitement.


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Input:
At this time the herd itself became a seething mass of activity and
excitement.

Output:
As usual under such conditions, the bulls were half the time
chasing the cows, and fighting each other during the other half.


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Input:
As usual under such conditions, the bulls were half the time
chasing the cows, and fighting each other during the other half.

Output:
These
actual combats, which were always of short duration and over in a few
seconds after the actual collision took place, were preceded by the
usual threatening demonstrations, in which the bull lowers his head
until his nose almost touches the ground, roars like a fog-horn until
the earth seems to fairly tremble with the vibration, glares madly upon
his adversary with half-white eyeballs, and with his forefeet paws up
the dry earth and throws it upward in a great cloud of dust high above
his back.


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Input:
These
actual combats, which were always of short duration and over in a few
seconds after the actual collision took place, were preceded by the
usual threatening demonstrations, in which the bull lowers his head
until his nose almost touches the ground, roars like a fog-horn until
the earth seems to fairly tremble with the vibration, glares madly upon
his adversary with half-white eyeballs, and with his forefeet paws up
the dry earth and throws it upward in a great cloud of dust high above
his back.

Output:
At such times the mingled roaring--it can not truthfully be
described as lowing or bellowing--of a number of huge bulls unite and
form a great volume of sound like distant thunder, which has often been
heard at a distance of from 1 to 3 miles.


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Input:
At such times the mingled roaring--it can not truthfully be
described as lowing or bellowing--of a number of huge bulls unite and
form a great volume of sound like distant thunder, which has often been
heard at a distance of from 1 to 3 miles.

Output:
I have even been assured by
old plainsmen that under favorable atmospheric conditions such sounds
have been heard five miles.


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Input:
I have even been assured by
old plainsmen that under favorable atmospheric conditions such sounds
have been heard five miles.

Output:
Notwithstanding the extreme frequency of combats between the bulls
during this season, their results were nearly always harmless, thanks to
the thickness of the hair and hide on the head and shoulders, and the
strength of the neck.


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Input:
Notwithstanding the extreme frequency of combats between the bulls
during this season, their results were nearly always harmless, thanks to
the thickness of the hair and hide on the head and shoulders, and the
strength of the neck.

Output:
Under no conditions was there ever any such thing as the pairing off or
mating of male and female buffaloes for any length of time.


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Input:
Under no conditions was there ever any such thing as the pairing off or
mating of male and female buffaloes for any length of time.

Output:
In the
entire process of reproduction the bison's habits were similar to those
of domestic cattle.


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Input:
In the
entire process of reproduction the bison's habits were similar to those
of domestic cattle.

Output:
For years the opinion was held by many, in some
cases based on misinterpreted observations, that in the herd the
identity of each family was partially preserved, and that each old bull
maintained an individual harem and group of progeny of his own.


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Input:
For years the opinion was held by many, in some
cases based on misinterpreted observations, that in the herd the
identity of each family was partially preserved, and that each old bull
maintained an individual harem and group of progeny of his own.

Output:
The
observations of Colonel Dodge completely disprove this very interesting
theory; for at best it was only a picturesque fancy, ascribing to the
bison a degree of intelligence which he never possessed.


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Input:
The
observations of Colonel Dodge completely disprove this very interesting
theory; for at best it was only a picturesque fancy, ascribing to the
bison a degree of intelligence which he never possessed.

Output:
At the close of the breeding season the herd quickly settles down to its
normal condition.


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Input:
At the close of the breeding season the herd quickly settles down to its
normal condition.

Output:
The mass gradually resolves itself into the numerous
bands or herdlets of from twenty to a hundred individuals, so
characteristic of bison on their feeding grounds, and these gradually
scatter in search of the best grass until the herd covers many square
miles of country.


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Input:
The mass gradually resolves itself into the numerous
bands or herdlets of from twenty to a hundred individuals, so
characteristic of bison on their feeding grounds, and these gradually
scatter in search of the best grass until the herd covers many square
miles of country.

Output:
In his search for grass the buffalo displayed but little intelligence or
power of original thought.


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Input:
In his search for grass the buffalo displayed but little intelligence or
power of original thought.

Output:
Instead of closely following the divides
between water courses where the soil was best and grass most abundant,
he would not hesitate to wander away from good feeding-grounds into
barren "bad lands," covered with sage-brush, where the grass was very
thin and very poor.


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Input:
Instead of closely following the divides
between water courses where the soil was best and grass most abundant,
he would not hesitate to wander away from good feeding-grounds into
barren "bad lands," covered with sage-brush, where the grass was very
thin and very poor.

Output:
In such broken country as Montana, Wyoming, and
southwestern Dakota, the herds, on reaching the best grazing grounds on
the divides, would graze there day after day until increasing thirst
compelled them to seek for water.


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Input:
In such broken country as Montana, Wyoming, and
southwestern Dakota, the herds, on reaching the best grazing grounds on
the divides, would graze there day after day until increasing thirst
compelled them to seek for water.

Output:
Then, actuated by a common impulse,
the search for a water-hole was begun in a business-like way.


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Input:
Then, actuated by a common impulse,
the search for a water-hole was begun in a business-like way.

Output:
The leader
of a herd, or "bunch," which post was usually filled by an old cow,
would start off down the nearest "draw," or stream-heading, and all the
rest would fall into line and follow her.


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Input:
The leader
of a herd, or "bunch," which post was usually filled by an old cow,
would start off down the nearest "draw," or stream-heading, and all the
rest would fall into line and follow her.

Output:
From the moment this start was
made there was no more feeding, save as a mouthful of grass could be
snatched now and then without turning aside.


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Input:
From the moment this start was
made there was no more feeding, save as a mouthful of grass could be
snatched now and then without turning aside.

Output:
In single file, in a line
sometimes half a mile long and containing between one and two hundred
buffaloes, the procession slowly marched down the coulée, close
alongside the gully as soon as the water-course began to cut a pathway
for itself.


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Input:
In single file, in a line
sometimes half a mile long and containing between one and two hundred
buffaloes, the procession slowly marched down the coulée, close
alongside the gully as soon as the water-course began to cut a pathway
for itself.

Output:
When the gully curved to right or left the leader would
cross its bed and keep straight on until the narrow ditch completed its
wayward curve and came back to the middle of the coulée.


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Input:
When the gully curved to right or left the leader would
cross its bed and keep straight on until the narrow ditch completed its
wayward curve and came back to the middle of the coulée.

Output:
The trail of a
herd in search of water is usually as good a piece of engineering as
could be executed by the best railway surveyor, and is governed by
precisely the same principles.


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Input:
The trail of a
herd in search of water is usually as good a piece of engineering as
could be executed by the best railway surveyor, and is governed by
precisely the same principles.

Output:
It always follows the level of the
valley, swerves around the high points, and crosses the stream
repeatedly in order to avoid climbing up from the level.


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Input:
It always follows the level of the
valley, swerves around the high points, and crosses the stream
repeatedly in order to avoid climbing up from the level.

Output:
The same trail
is used again and again by different herds until the narrow path, not
over a foot in width, is gradually cut straight down into the soil to a
depth of several inches, as if it had been done by a 12-inch
grooving-plane.


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Input:
The same trail
is used again and again by different herds until the narrow path, not
over a foot in width, is gradually cut straight down into the soil to a
depth of several inches, as if it had been done by a 12-inch
grooving-plane.

Output:
By the time the trail has been worn down to a depth of 6
or 7 inches, without having its width increased in the least, it is no
longer a pleasant path to walk in, being too much like a narrow ditch.


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Input:
By the time the trail has been worn down to a depth of 6
or 7 inches, without having its width increased in the least, it is no
longer a pleasant path to walk in, being too much like a narrow ditch.

Output:
Then the buffaloes abandon it and strike out a new one alongside, which
is used until it also is worn down and abandoned.


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Input:
Then the buffaloes abandon it and strike out a new one alongside, which
is used until it also is worn down and abandoned.

Output:
To day the old buffalo trails are conspicuous among the very few classes
of objects which remain as a reminder of a vanished race.


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Input:
To day the old buffalo trails are conspicuous among the very few classes
of objects which remain as a reminder of a vanished race.

Output:
The herds of
cattle now follow them in single file just as the buffaloes did a few
years ago, as they search for water in the same way.


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Input:
The herds of
cattle now follow them in single file just as the buffaloes did a few
years ago, as they search for water in the same way.

Output:
In some parts of
the West, in certain situations, old buffalo trails exist which the wild
herds wore down to a depth of 2 feet or more.


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Input:
In some parts of
the West, in certain situations, old buffalo trails exist which the wild
herds wore down to a depth of 2 feet or more.

Output:
Mile after mile marched the herd, straight down-stream, bound for the
upper water-hole.


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Input:
Mile after mile marched the herd, straight down-stream, bound for the
upper water-hole.

Output:
As the hot summer drew on, the pools would dry up one
by one, those nearest the source being the first to disappear.


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Input:
As the hot summer drew on, the pools would dry up one
by one, those nearest the source being the first to disappear.

Output:
Toward
the latter part of summer, the journey for water was often a long one.


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Input:
Toward
the latter part of summer, the journey for water was often a long one.

Output: Hole after hole would be passed without finding a drop of water.


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Input: Hole after hole would be passed without finding a drop of water.

Output:
At last
a hole of mud would be found, below that a hole with a little muddy
water, and a mile farther on the leader would arrive at a shallow pool
under the edge of a "cut bank," a white, snow-like deposit of alkali on
the sand encircling its margin, and incrusting the blades of grass and
rushed that grew up from the bottom.


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Input:
At last
a hole of mud would be found, below that a hole with a little muddy
water, and a mile farther on the leader would arrive at a shallow pool
under the edge of a "cut bank," a white, snow-like deposit of alkali on
the sand encircling its margin, and incrusting the blades of grass and
rushed that grew up from the bottom.

Output:
The damp earth around the pool was
cut up by a thousand hoof-prints, and the water was warm, strongly
impregnated with alkali, and yellow with animal impurities, but it was
_water_.


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Input:
The damp earth around the pool was
cut up by a thousand hoof-prints, and the water was warm, strongly
impregnated with alkali, and yellow with animal impurities, but it was
_water_.

Output:
The nauseous mixture was quickly surrounded by a throng of
thirsty, heated, and eager buffaloes of all ages, to which the oldest
and strongest asserted claims of priority.


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Input:
The nauseous mixture was quickly surrounded by a throng of
thirsty, heated, and eager buffaloes of all ages, to which the oldest
and strongest asserted claims of priority.

Output:
There was much crowding and
some fighting, but eventually all were satisfied.


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Input:
There was much crowding and
some fighting, but eventually all were satisfied.

Output:
After such a long
journey to water, a herd would usually remain by it for some hours,
lying down, resting, and drinking at intervals until completely
satisfied.


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Input:
After such a long
journey to water, a herd would usually remain by it for some hours,
lying down, resting, and drinking at intervals until completely
satisfied.

Output:
Having drunk its fill, the herd would never march directly back to the
choice feeding grounds it had just left, but instead would leisurely
stroll off at a right angle from the course it came, cropping for awhile
the rich bunch grasses of the bottom-lands, and then wander across the
hills in an almost aimless search for fresh fields and pastures new.


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Input:
Having drunk its fill, the herd would never march directly back to the
choice feeding grounds it had just left, but instead would leisurely
stroll off at a right angle from the course it came, cropping for awhile
the rich bunch grasses of the bottom-lands, and then wander across the
hills in an almost aimless search for fresh fields and pastures new.

Output:
When buffaloes remained long in a certain locality it was a common thing
for them to visit the same watering-place a number of times, at
intervals of greater or less duration, according to circumstances.


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Input:
When buffaloes remained long in a certain locality it was a common thing
for them to visit the same watering-place a number of times, at
intervals of greater or less duration, according to circumstances.

Output:
When undisturbed on his chosen range, the bison used to be fond of lying
down for an hour or two in the middle of the day, particularly when fine
weather and good grass combined to encourage him in luxurious habits.


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Input:
When undisturbed on his chosen range, the bison used to be fond of lying
down for an hour or two in the middle of the day, particularly when fine
weather and good grass combined to encourage him in luxurious habits.

Output:
I
once discovered with the field glass a small herd of buffaloes lying
down at midday on the slope of a high ridge, and having ridden hard for
several hours we seized the opportunity to unsaddle and give our horses
an hour's rest before making the attack.


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Input:
I
once discovered with the field glass a small herd of buffaloes lying
down at midday on the slope of a high ridge, and having ridden hard for
several hours we seized the opportunity to unsaddle and give our horses
an hour's rest before making the attack.

Output:
While we were so doing, the
herd got up, shifted its position to the opposite side of the ridge, and
again laid down, every buffalo with his nose pointing to windward.


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Input:
While we were so doing, the
herd got up, shifted its position to the opposite side of the ridge, and
again laid down, every buffalo with his nose pointing to windward.

Output:
Old hunters declare that in the days of their abundance, when feeding on
their ranges in fancied security, the younger animals were as playful as
well-fed domestic calves.


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Input:
Old hunters declare that in the days of their abundance, when feeding on
their ranges in fancied security, the younger animals were as playful as
well-fed domestic calves.

Output:
It was a common thing to see them cavort and
frisk around with about as much grace as young elephants, prancing and
running to and fro with tails held high in air "like scorpions.


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Input:
It was a common thing to see them cavort and
frisk around with about as much grace as young elephants, prancing and
running to and fro with tails held high in air "like scorpions.

Output:
"

Buffaloes are very fond of rolling in dry dirt or even in mud, and this
habit is quite strong in captive animals.


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Input:
"

Buffaloes are very fond of rolling in dry dirt or even in mud, and this
habit is quite strong in captive animals.

Output:
Not only is it indulged in
during the shedding season, but all through the fall and winter.


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Input:
Not only is it indulged in
during the shedding season, but all through the fall and winter.

Output:
The two
live buffaloes in the National Museum are so much given to rolling, even
in rainy weather, that it is necessary to card them every few days to
keep them presentable.


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Input:
The two
live buffaloes in the National Museum are so much given to rolling, even
in rainy weather, that it is necessary to card them every few days to
keep them presentable.

Output:
Bulls are much more given to rolling than the cows, especially after
they have reached maturity.


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Input:
Bulls are much more given to rolling than the cows, especially after
they have reached maturity.

Output:
They stretch out at full length, rub their
heads violently to and fro on the ground, in which the horn serves as
the chief point of contact and slides over the ground like a
sled-runner.


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Input:
They stretch out at full length, rub their
heads violently to and fro on the ground, in which the horn serves as
the chief point of contact and slides over the ground like a
sled-runner.

Output:
After thoroughly scratching one side on mother earth they
roll over and treat the other in like manner.


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Input:
After thoroughly scratching one side on mother earth they
roll over and treat the other in like manner.

Output:
Notwithstanding his sharp
and lofty hump, a buffalo bull can roll completely over with as much
ease as any horse.


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Input:
Notwithstanding his sharp
and lofty hump, a buffalo bull can roll completely over with as much
ease as any horse.

Output:
The vast amount of rolling and side-scratching on the earth indulged in
by bull buffaloes is shown in the worn condition of the horns of every
old specimen.


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Input:
The vast amount of rolling and side-scratching on the earth indulged in
by bull buffaloes is shown in the worn condition of the horns of every
old specimen.

Output:
Often a thickness of half an inch is gone from the upper
half of each horn on its outside curve, at which point the horn is worn
quite flat.


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Input:
Often a thickness of half an inch is gone from the upper
half of each horn on its outside curve, at which point the horn is worn
quite flat.

Output:
This is well illustrated in the horns shown in the
accompanying plate, fig.


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Input:
This is well illustrated in the horns shown in the
accompanying plate, fig.

Output: 6.


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Output: [Illustration: DEVELOPMENT OF THE HORNS OF THE AMERICAN BISON.


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Input: [Illustration: DEVELOPMENT OF THE HORNS OF THE AMERICAN BISON.

Output: 1.


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Output: The Calf.


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Input: The Calf.

Output: 2.


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Output: The Yearling.


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Input: The Yearling.

Output: 3.


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Output: Spike Bull, 2 years old.


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Input: Spike Bull, 2 years old.

Output: 4.


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Output: Spike Bull, 3 years old.


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Input: Spike Bull, 3 years old.

Output: 5. Bull, 4 years old.


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Input: 5. Bull, 4 years old.

Output: 6.


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Output: Bull, 11 years old.


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Input: Bull, 11 years old.

Output: 7. Old "stub-horn" Bull, 20 years old.]


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Input: 7. Old "stub-horn" Bull, 20 years old.]

Output:
Mr. Catlin[36] affords some very interesting and valuable information in
regard to the bison's propensity for wollowing in mad, and also the
origin of the "fairy circles," which have caused so much speculation
amongst travelers:


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Input:
Mr. Catlin[36] affords some very interesting and valuable information in
regard to the bison's propensity for wollowing in mad, and also the
origin of the "fairy circles," which have caused so much speculation
amongst travelers:

Output: [Note 36: North American Indians, vol.


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Input: [Note 36: North American Indians, vol.

Output:
I, p. 249, 250.]

"In the heat of summer, these huge animals, which no doubt suffer very
much with the great profusion of their long and shaggy hair, or fur,
often graze on the low grounds of the prairies, where there is a little
stagnant water lying amongst the grass, and the ground underneath being
saturated with it, is soft, into which the enormous bull, lowered down
upon one knee, will plunge his horns, and at last his head, driving up
the earth, and soon making an excavation in the ground into which the
water filters from amongst the grass, forming for him in a few moments a
cool and comfortable bath, into which he plunges like a hog in his mire.


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I, p. 249, 250.]

"In the heat of summer, these huge animals, which no doubt suffer very
much with the great profusion of their long and shaggy hair, or fur,
often graze on the low grounds of the prairies, where there is a little
stagnant water lying amongst the grass, and the ground underneath being
saturated with it, is soft, into which the enormous bull, lowered down
upon one knee, will plunge his horns, and at last his head, driving up
the earth, and soon making an excavation in the ground into which the
water filters from amongst the grass, forming for him in a few moments a
cool and comfortable bath, into which he plunges like a hog in his mire.

Output:
"In this delectable laver he throws himself flat upon his side, and
forcing himself violently around, with his horns and his huge hump on
his shoulders presented to the sides, he ploughs up the ground by his
rotary motion, sinking himself deeper and deeper in the ground,
continually enlarging his pool, in which he at length becomes nearly
immersed, and the water and mud about him mixed into a complete mortar,
which changes his color and drips in streams from every part of him as
he rises up upon his feet, a hideous monster of mud and ugliness, too
frightful and too eccentric to be described!


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"In this delectable laver he throws himself flat upon his side, and
forcing himself violently around, with his horns and his huge hump on
his shoulders presented to the sides, he ploughs up the ground by his
rotary motion, sinking himself deeper and deeper in the ground,
continually enlarging his pool, in which he at length becomes nearly
immersed, and the water and mud about him mixed into a complete mortar,
which changes his color and drips in streams from every part of him as
he rises up upon his feet, a hideous monster of mud and ugliness, too
frightful and too eccentric to be described!

Output:
"It is generally the leader of the herd that takes upon him to make this
excavation, and if not (but another one opens the ground), the leader
(who is conqueror) marches forward, and driving the other from it
plunges himself into it; and, having cooled his sides and changed his
color to a walking mass of mud and mortar, he stands in the pool until
inclination induces him to step out and give place to the next in
command who stands ready, and another, and another, who advance forward
in their turns to enjoy the luxury of the wallow, until the whole band
(sometimes a hundred or more) will pass through it in turn,[37] each one
throwing his body around in a similar manner and each one adding a
little to the dimensions of the pool, while he carries away in his hair
an equal share of the clay, which dries to a gray or whitish color and
gradually falls off.


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"It is generally the leader of the herd that takes upon him to make this
excavation, and if not (but another one opens the ground), the leader
(who is conqueror) marches forward, and driving the other from it
plunges himself into it; and, having cooled his sides and changed his
color to a walking mass of mud and mortar, he stands in the pool until
inclination induces him to step out and give place to the next in
command who stands ready, and another, and another, who advance forward
in their turns to enjoy the luxury of the wallow, until the whole band
(sometimes a hundred or more) will pass through it in turn,[37] each one
throwing his body around in a similar manner and each one adding a
little to the dimensions of the pool, while he carries away in his hair
an equal share of the clay, which dries to a gray or whitish color and
gradually falls off.

Output:
By this operation, which is done perhaps in the
space of half an hour, a circular excavation of fifteen or twenty feet
in diameter and two feet in depth is completed and left for the water to
run into, which soon fills it to the level of the ground.


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Input:
By this operation, which is done perhaps in the
space of half an hour, a circular excavation of fifteen or twenty feet
in diameter and two feet in depth is completed and left for the water to
run into, which soon fills it to the level of the ground.

Output:
[Note 37: In the District of Columbia work-house we have a counterpart
of this in the public bath-tub, wherein forty prisoners were seen by a
_


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Input:
[Note 37: In the District of Columbia work-house we have a counterpart
of this in the public bath-tub, wherein forty prisoners were seen by a
_

Output:
Star_ reporter to bathe one after another in the same water!]

"To these sinks, the waters lying on the surface of the prairies are
continually draining and in them lodging their vegetable deposits, which
after a lapse of years fill them up to the surface with a rich soil,
which throws up an unusual growth of grass and herbage, forming
conspicuous circles, which arrest the eye of the traveler and are
calculated to excite his surprise for ages to come.


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Input:
Star_ reporter to bathe one after another in the same water!]

"To these sinks, the waters lying on the surface of the prairies are
continually draining and in them lodging their vegetable deposits, which
after a lapse of years fill them up to the surface with a rich soil,
which throws up an unusual growth of grass and herbage, forming
conspicuous circles, which arrest the eye of the traveler and are
calculated to excite his surprise for ages to come.

Output:
"

During the latter part of the last century, when the bison inhabited
Kentucky and Pennsylvania, the salt springs of those States were
resorted to by thousands of those animals, who drank of the saline
waters and licked the impregnated earth.


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"

During the latter part of the last century, when the bison inhabited
Kentucky and Pennsylvania, the salt springs of those States were
resorted to by thousands of those animals, who drank of the saline
waters and licked the impregnated earth.

Output: Mr. Thomas Ashe[38]


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Input: Mr. Thomas Ashe[38]

Output:
affords us
a most interesting account, from the testimony of an eye witness, of the
behavior of a bison at a salt spring.


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Input:
affords us
a most interesting account, from the testimony of an eye witness, of the
behavior of a bison at a salt spring.

Output:
The description refers to a
locality in western Pennsylvania, where "an old man, one of the first
settlers of this country, built his log house on the immediate borders
of a salt spring.


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Input:
The description refers to a
locality in western Pennsylvania, where "an old man, one of the first
settlers of this country, built his log house on the immediate borders
of a salt spring.

Output:
He informed me that for the first several seasons the
buffaloes paid him their visits with the utmost regularity; they
traveled in single files, always following each other at equal
distances, forming droves, on their arrival, of about 300 each.


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Input:
He informed me that for the first several seasons the
buffaloes paid him their visits with the utmost regularity; they
traveled in single files, always following each other at equal
distances, forming droves, on their arrival, of about 300 each.

Output: [Note 38: Travels in America in 1806.


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Input: [Note 38: Travels in America in 1806.

Output: London, 1808.]


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Input: London, 1808.]

Output:
"The first and second years, so unacquainted were these poor brutes with
the use of this man's house or with his nature, that in a few hours they
_rubbed_


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Input:
"The first and second years, so unacquainted were these poor brutes with
the use of this man's house or with his nature, that in a few hours they
_rubbed_

Output:
the house completely down, taking delight in turning the logs
off with their horns, while he had some difficulty to escape from being
trampled under their feet or crushed to death in his own ruins.


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Input:
the house completely down, taking delight in turning the logs
off with their horns, while he had some difficulty to escape from being
trampled under their feet or crushed to death in his own ruins.

Output:
At that
period he supposed there could not have been less than 2,000 in the
neighborhood of the spring.


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Input:
At that
period he supposed there could not have been less than 2,000 in the
neighborhood of the spring.

Output:
They sought for no manner of food, but only
bathed and drank three or four times a day and rolled in the earth, or
reposed with their flanks distended in the adjacent shades; and on the
fifth and sixth days separated into distinct droves, bathed, drank, and
departed in single files, according to the exact order of their arrival.


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Input:
They sought for no manner of food, but only
bathed and drank three or four times a day and rolled in the earth, or
reposed with their flanks distended in the adjacent shades; and on the
fifth and sixth days separated into distinct droves, bathed, drank, and
departed in single files, according to the exact order of their arrival.

Output:
They all rolled successively in the same hole, and each thus carried
away a coat of mud to preserve the moisture on their skin and which,
when hardened and baked in the sun, would resist the stings of millions
of insects that otherwise would persecute these peaceful travelers to
madness or even death.


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Input:
They all rolled successively in the same hole, and each thus carried
away a coat of mud to preserve the moisture on their skin and which,
when hardened and baked in the sun, would resist the stings of millions
of insects that otherwise would persecute these peaceful travelers to
madness or even death.

Output:
"

It was a fixed habit with the great buffalo herds to move southward from
200 to 400 miles at the approach of winter.


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"

It was a fixed habit with the great buffalo herds to move southward from
200 to 400 miles at the approach of winter.

Output:
Sometimes this movement was
accomplished quietly and without any excitement, but at other times it
was done with a rush, in which considerable distances would be gone over
on the double quick.


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Input:
Sometimes this movement was
accomplished quietly and without any excitement, but at other times it
was done with a rush, in which considerable distances would be gone over
on the double quick.

Output:
The advance of a herd was often very much like that
of a big army, in a straggling line, from four to ten animals abreast.


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Input:
The advance of a herd was often very much like that
of a big army, in a straggling line, from four to ten animals abreast.

Output:
Sometimes the herd moved forward in a dense mass, and in consequence
often came to grief in quicksands, alkali bogs, muddy crossings, and on
treacherous ice.


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Input:
Sometimes the herd moved forward in a dense mass, and in consequence
often came to grief in quicksands, alkali bogs, muddy crossings, and on
treacherous ice.

Output:
In such places thousands of buffaloes lost their lives,
through those in the lead being forced into danger by pressure of the
mass coming behind.


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Input:
In such places thousands of buffaloes lost their lives,
through those in the lead being forced into danger by pressure of the
mass coming behind.

Output:
In this manner, in the summer of 1867, over two
thousand buffaloes, out of a herd of about four thousand, lost their
lives in the quicksands of the Platte River, near Plum Creek, while
attempting to cross.


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Input:
In this manner, in the summer of 1867, over two
thousand buffaloes, out of a herd of about four thousand, lost their
lives in the quicksands of the Platte River, near Plum Creek, while
attempting to cross.

Output:
One winter, a herd of nearly a hundred buffaloes
attempted to cross a lake called Lac-qui-parle, in Minnesota, upon the
ice, which gave way, and drowned the entire herd.


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Input:
One winter, a herd of nearly a hundred buffaloes
attempted to cross a lake called Lac-qui-parle, in Minnesota, upon the
ice, which gave way, and drowned the entire herd.

Output:
During the days of the
buffalo it was a common thing for voyagers on the Missouri River to see
buffaloes hopelessly mired in the quicksands or mud along the shore,
either dead or dying, and to find their dead bodies floating down the
river, or lodged on the upper ends of the islands and sand-bars.


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Input:
During the days of the
buffalo it was a common thing for voyagers on the Missouri River to see
buffaloes hopelessly mired in the quicksands or mud along the shore,
either dead or dying, and to find their dead bodies floating down the
river, or lodged on the upper ends of the islands and sand-bars.

Output:
Such accidents as these: it may be repeated, were due to the great
number of animals and the momentum of the moving mass.


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Input:
Such accidents as these: it may be repeated, were due to the great
number of animals and the momentum of the moving mass.

Output:
The forced
marches of the great herds were like the flight of a routed army, in
which helpless individuals were thrust into mortal peril by the
irresistible force of the mass coming behind, which rushes blindly on
after their leaders.


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Input:
The forced
marches of the great herds were like the flight of a routed army, in
which helpless individuals were thrust into mortal peril by the
irresistible force of the mass coming behind, which rushes blindly on
after their leaders.

Output:
In this way it was possible to decoy a herd toward
a precipice and cause it to plunge over en masse, the leaders being
thrust over by their followers, and all the rest following of their own
free will, like the sheep who cheerfully leaped, one after another,
through a hole in the side of a high bridge because their bell-wether
did so.


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Input:
In this way it was possible to decoy a herd toward
a precipice and cause it to plunge over en masse, the leaders being
thrust over by their followers, and all the rest following of their own
free will, like the sheep who cheerfully leaped, one after another,
through a hole in the side of a high bridge because their bell-wether
did so.

Output:
But it is not to be understood that the movement of a great herd,
because it was made on a run, necessarily partook of the nature of a
stampede in which a herd sweeps forward in a body.


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Input:
But it is not to be understood that the movement of a great herd,
because it was made on a run, necessarily partook of the nature of a
stampede in which a herd sweeps forward in a body.

Output:
The most graphic
account that I ever obtained of facts bearing on this point was
furnished by Mr. James McNaney, drawn from his experience on the
northern buffalo range in 1882.


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Input:
The most graphic
account that I ever obtained of facts bearing on this point was
furnished by Mr. James McNaney, drawn from his experience on the
northern buffalo range in 1882.

Output:
His party reached the range (on Beaver
Creek, about 100 miles south of Glendive) about the middle of November,
and found buffaloes already there; in fact they had begun to arrive from
the north as early as the middle of October.


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Input:
His party reached the range (on Beaver
Creek, about 100 miles south of Glendive) about the middle of November,
and found buffaloes already there; in fact they had begun to arrive from
the north as early as the middle of October.

Output:
About the first of December
an immense herd arrived from the north.


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Input:
About the first of December
an immense herd arrived from the north.

Output:
It reached their vicinity one
night, about 10 o'clock, in a mass that seemed to spread everywhere.


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Input:
It reached their vicinity one
night, about 10 o'clock, in a mass that seemed to spread everywhere.

Output:
As
the hunters sat in their tents, loading cartridges and cleaning their
rifles, a low rumble was heard, which gradually increased to "a
thundering noise," and some one exclaimed, "There!


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Input:
As
the hunters sat in their tents, loading cartridges and cleaning their
rifles, a low rumble was heard, which gradually increased to "a
thundering noise," and some one exclaimed, "There!

Output:
that's a big herd of
buffalo coming in!"


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Input:
that's a big herd of
buffalo coming in!"

Output:
All ran out immediately, and hallooed and discharged
rifles to keep the buffaloes from running over their tents.


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Input:
All ran out immediately, and hallooed and discharged
rifles to keep the buffaloes from running over their tents.

Output:
Fortunately,
the horses were picketed some distance away in a grassy coulée, which
the buffaloes did not enter.


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Input:
Fortunately,
the horses were picketed some distance away in a grassy coulée, which
the buffaloes did not enter.

Output:
The herd came at a jog trot, and moved
quite rapidly.


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Input:
The herd came at a jog trot, and moved
quite rapidly.

Output:
"In the morning the whole country was black with
buffalo."


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Input:
"In the morning the whole country was black with
buffalo."

Output: It was estimated that 10,000 head were in sight.


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Input: It was estimated that 10,000 head were in sight.

Output:
One immense
detachment went down on to a "flat" and laid down.


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Input:
One immense
detachment went down on to a "flat" and laid down.

Output:
There it remained
quietly, enjoying a long rest, for about ten days.


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Input:
There it remained
quietly, enjoying a long rest, for about ten days.

Output:
It gradually broke up
into small bands, which strolled off in various directions looking for
food, and which the hunters quietly attacked.


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Input:
It gradually broke up
into small bands, which strolled off in various directions looking for
food, and which the hunters quietly attacked.

Output:
A still more striking event occurred about Christmas time at the same
place.


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Input:
A still more striking event occurred about Christmas time at the same
place.

Output:
For a few days the neighborhood of McNaney's camp had been
entirely deserted by buffaloes, not even one remaining.


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Input:
For a few days the neighborhood of McNaney's camp had been
entirely deserted by buffaloes, not even one remaining.

Output:
But one morning
about daybreak a great herd which was traveling south began to pass
their camp.


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Input:
But one morning
about daybreak a great herd which was traveling south began to pass
their camp.

Output:
A long line of moving forms was seen advancing rapidly from
the northwest, coming in the direction of the hunters' camp.


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Input:
A long line of moving forms was seen advancing rapidly from
the northwest, coming in the direction of the hunters' camp.

Output:
It
disappeared in the creek valley for a few moments, and presently the
leaders suddenly came in sight again at the top of "a rise" a few
hundred yards away, and came down the intervening slope at full speed,
within 50 yards of the two tents.


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Input:
It
disappeared in the creek valley for a few moments, and presently the
leaders suddenly came in sight again at the top of "a rise" a few
hundred yards away, and came down the intervening slope at full speed,
within 50 yards of the two tents.

Output:
After them came a living stream of
followers, all going at a gallop, described by the observer as "a long
lope," from four to ten buffaloes abreast.


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Input:
After them came a living stream of
followers, all going at a gallop, described by the observer as "a long
lope," from four to ten buffaloes abreast.

Output:
Sometimes there would be a
break in the column of a minute's duration, then more buffaloes would
appear at the brow of the hill, and the column went rushing by as
before.


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Input:
Sometimes there would be a
break in the column of a minute's duration, then more buffaloes would
appear at the brow of the hill, and the column went rushing by as
before.

Output:
The calves ran with their mothers, and the young stock got over
the ground with much less exertion than the older animals.


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Input:
The calves ran with their mothers, and the young stock got over
the ground with much less exertion than the older animals.

Output:
For about
four hours, or until past 11 o'clock, did this column of buffaloes
gallop past the camp over a course no wider than a village street.


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Input:
For about
four hours, or until past 11 o'clock, did this column of buffaloes
gallop past the camp over a course no wider than a village street.

Output:
Three
miles away toward the south the long dark line of bobbing humps and
hind quarters wound to the right between two hills and disappeared.


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Input:
Three
miles away toward the south the long dark line of bobbing humps and
hind quarters wound to the right between two hills and disappeared.

Output:
True
to their instincts, the hunters promptly brought out their rifles, and
began to fire at the buffaloes as they ran.


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Input:
True
to their instincts, the hunters promptly brought out their rifles, and
began to fire at the buffaloes as they ran.

Output:
A furious fusilade was kept
up from the very doors of the tents, and from first to last over fifty
buffaloes were killed.


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Input:
A furious fusilade was kept
up from the very doors of the tents, and from first to last over fifty
buffaloes were killed.

Output:
Some fell headlong the instant they were hit, but
the greater number ran on until their mortal wounds compelled them to
halt, draw off a little way to one side, and finally fall in their death
struggles.


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Input:
Some fell headlong the instant they were hit, but
the greater number ran on until their mortal wounds compelled them to
halt, draw off a little way to one side, and finally fall in their death
struggles.

Output:
Mr. McNaney stated that the hunters estimated the number of buffaloes
_on that portion_ of the range that winter (1881-'82) at 100,000.


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Input:
Mr. McNaney stated that the hunters estimated the number of buffaloes
_on that portion_ of the range that winter (1881-'82) at 100,000.

Output:
It is probable, and in fact reasonably certain, that such forced-march
migrations as the above were due to snow-covered pastures and a scarcity
of food on the more northern ranges.


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Input:
It is probable, and in fact reasonably certain, that such forced-march
migrations as the above were due to snow-covered pastures and a scarcity
of food on the more northern ranges.

Output:
Having learned that a journey south
will bring him to regions of less snow and more grass, it is but natural
that so lusty a traveler should migrate.


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Input:
Having learned that a journey south
will bring him to regions of less snow and more grass, it is but natural
that so lusty a traveler should migrate.

Output:
The herds or bands which
started south in the fall months traveled more leisurely, with frequent
halts to graze on rich pastures.


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Input:
The herds or bands which
started south in the fall months traveled more leisurely, with frequent
halts to graze on rich pastures.

Output:
The advance was on a very different
plan, taking place in straggling lines and small groups dispersed over
quite a scope of country.


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Input:
The advance was on a very different
plan, taking place in straggling lines and small groups dispersed over
quite a scope of country.

Output:
Unless closely pursued, the buffalo never chose to make a journey of
several miles through hilly country on a continuous run.


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Input:
Unless closely pursued, the buffalo never chose to make a journey of
several miles through hilly country on a continuous run.

Output:
Even when
fleeing from the attack of a hunter, I have often had occasion to notice
that, if the hunter was a mile behind, the buffalo would always walk
when going uphill; but as soon as the crest was gained he would begin to
run, and go down the slope either at a gallop or a swift trot.


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Input:
Even when
fleeing from the attack of a hunter, I have often had occasion to notice
that, if the hunter was a mile behind, the buffalo would always walk
when going uphill; but as soon as the crest was gained he would begin to
run, and go down the slope either at a gallop or a swift trot.

Output:
In former
times, when the buffalo's world was wide, when retreating from an attack
he always ran against the wind, to avoid running upon a new danger,
which showed that he depended more upon his sense of smell than his
eye-sight.


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Input:
In former
times, when the buffalo's world was wide, when retreating from an attack
he always ran against the wind, to avoid running upon a new danger,
which showed that he depended more upon his sense of smell than his
eye-sight.

Output:
During the last years of his existence, however, this habit
almost totally disappeared, and the harried survivors learned to run for
the regions which offered the greatest safety.


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Input:
During the last years of his existence, however, this habit
almost totally disappeared, and the harried survivors learned to run for
the regions which offered the greatest safety.

Output:
But even to-day, if a
Texas hunter should go into the Staked Plains, and descry in the
distance a body of animals running against the wind, he would, without a
moment's hesitation, pronounce them buffaloes, and the chances are that
he would be right.


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But even to-day, if a
Texas hunter should go into the Staked Plains, and descry in the
distance a body of animals running against the wind, he would, without a
moment's hesitation, pronounce them buffaloes, and the chances are that
he would be right.

Output:
In winter the buffalo used to face the storms, instead of turning tail
and "drifting" before them helplessly, as domestic cattle do.


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Input:
In winter the buffalo used to face the storms, instead of turning tail
and "drifting" before them helplessly, as domestic cattle do.

Output:
But at the
same time, when beset by a blizzard, he would wisely seek shelter from
it in some narrow and deep valley or system of ravines.


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Input:
But at the
same time, when beset by a blizzard, he would wisely seek shelter from
it in some narrow and deep valley or system of ravines.

Output:
There the herd
would lie down and wait patiently for the storm to cease.


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Input:
There the herd
would lie down and wait patiently for the storm to cease.

Output:
After a heavy
fall of snow, the place to find the buffalo was in the flats and creek
bottoms, where the tall, rank bunch-grasses showed their tops above the
snow, and afforded the best and almost the only food obtainable.


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Input:
After a heavy
fall of snow, the place to find the buffalo was in the flats and creek
bottoms, where the tall, rank bunch-grasses showed their tops above the
snow, and afforded the best and almost the only food obtainable.

Output:
When the snow-fall was unusually heavy, and lay for a long time on the
ground, the buffalo was forced to fast for days together, and sometimes
even weeks.


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Input:
When the snow-fall was unusually heavy, and lay for a long time on the
ground, the buffalo was forced to fast for days together, and sometimes
even weeks.

Output:
If a warm day came, and thawed the upper surface of the snow
sufficiently for succeeding cold to freeze it into a crust, the outlook
for the bison began to be serious.


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Input:
If a warm day came, and thawed the upper surface of the snow
sufficiently for succeeding cold to freeze it into a crust, the outlook
for the bison began to be serious.

Output:
A man can travel over a crust through
which the hoofs of a ponderous bison cut like chisels and leave him
floundering belly-deep.


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Input:
A man can travel over a crust through
which the hoofs of a ponderous bison cut like chisels and leave him
floundering belly-deep.

Output:
It was at such times that the Indians hunted him
on snow-shoes, and drove their spears into his vitals as he wallowed
helplessly in the drifts.


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Input:
It was at such times that the Indians hunted him
on snow-shoes, and drove their spears into his vitals as he wallowed
helplessly in the drifts.

Output:
Then the wolves grew fat upon the victims
which they, also, slaughtered almost without effort.


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Then the wolves grew fat upon the victims
which they, also, slaughtered almost without effort.

Output:
Although buffaloes did not often actually perish from hunger and cold
during the severest winters (save in a few very exceptional cases), they
often came out in very poor condition.


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Input:
Although buffaloes did not often actually perish from hunger and cold
during the severest winters (save in a few very exceptional cases), they
often came out in very poor condition.

Output:
The old bulls always suffered
more severely than the rest, and at the end of winter were frequently in
miserable plight.


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Input:
The old bulls always suffered
more severely than the rest, and at the end of winter were frequently in
miserable plight.

Output:
Unlike most other terrestrial quadrupeds of America, so long as he could
roam at will the buffalo had settled migratory habits.[39] While the elk
and black-tail deer change their altitude twice a year, in conformity
with the approach and disappearance of winter, the buffalo makes a
radical change of latitude.


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Unlike most other terrestrial quadrupeds of America, so long as he could
roam at will the buffalo had settled migratory habits.[39] While the elk
and black-tail deer change their altitude twice a year, in conformity
with the approach and disappearance of winter, the buffalo makes a
radical change of latitude.

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This was most noticeable in the great
western pasture region, where the herds were most numerous and their
movements most easily observed.


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This was most noticeable in the great
western pasture region, where the herds were most numerous and their
movements most easily observed.

Output: [Note 39: On page 248 of his "North American Indians," vol.


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I, Mr.
Catlin declares pointedly that "these animals are, truly speaking,
gregarious, but not migratory; they graze in immense and almost
incredible numbers at times, and roam about and over vast tracts of
country from east to west and from west to east as often as from north
to south, which has often been supposed they naturally and habitually
did to accommodate themselves to the temperature of the climate in the
different latitudes."


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I, Mr.
Catlin declares pointedly that "these animals are, truly speaking,
gregarious, but not migratory; they graze in immense and almost
incredible numbers at times, and roam about and over vast tracts of
country from east to west and from west to east as often as from north
to south, which has often been supposed they naturally and habitually
did to accommodate themselves to the temperature of the climate in the
different latitudes."

Output:
Had Mr. Catlin resided continuously in any one
locality on the great buffalo range, he would have found that the
buffalo had decided migratory habits.


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Had Mr. Catlin resided continuously in any one
locality on the great buffalo range, he would have found that the
buffalo had decided migratory habits.

Output:
The abundance of proof on this
point renders it unnecessary to eater fully into the details of the
subject.]


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The abundance of proof on this
point renders it unnecessary to eater fully into the details of the
subject.]

Output:
At the approach of winter the whole great system of herds which ranged
from the Peace River to the Indian Territory moved south a few hundred
miles, and wintered under more favorable circumstances than each band
would have experienced at its farthest north.


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At the approach of winter the whole great system of herds which ranged
from the Peace River to the Indian Territory moved south a few hundred
miles, and wintered under more favorable circumstances than each band
would have experienced at its farthest north.

Output:
Thus it happened that
nearly the whole of the great range south of the Saskatchewan was
occupied by buffaloes even in winter.


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Thus it happened that
nearly the whole of the great range south of the Saskatchewan was
occupied by buffaloes even in winter.

Output:
The movement north began with the return of mild weather in the early
spring.


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Input:
The movement north began with the return of mild weather in the early
spring.

Output:
Undoubtedly this northward migration was to escape the heat of
their southern winter range rather than to find better pasture; for as a
grazing country for cattle all the year round, Texas is hardly
surpassed, except where it is overstocked.


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Undoubtedly this northward migration was to escape the heat of
their southern winter range rather than to find better pasture; for as a
grazing country for cattle all the year round, Texas is hardly
surpassed, except where it is overstocked.

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It was with the buffaloes a
matter of choice rather than necessity which sent them on their annual
pilgrimage northward.


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Input:
It was with the buffaloes a
matter of choice rather than necessity which sent them on their annual
pilgrimage northward.

Output:
Col. R. I. Dodge, who has made many valuable observations on the
migratory habits of the southern buffaloes, has recorded the
following:[40]

"Early in spring, as soon as the dry and apparently desert prairie had
begun to change its coat of dingy brown to one of palest green, the
horizon would begin to be dotted with buffalo, single or in groups of
two or three, forerunners of the coming herd.


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Col. R. I. Dodge, who has made many valuable observations on the
migratory habits of the southern buffaloes, has recorded the
following:[40]

"Early in spring, as soon as the dry and apparently desert prairie had
begun to change its coat of dingy brown to one of palest green, the
horizon would begin to be dotted with buffalo, single or in groups of
two or three, forerunners of the coming herd.

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Thicker and thicker and in
larger groups they come, until by the time the grass is well up the
whole vast landscape appears a mass of buffalo, some individuals
feeding, others standing, others lying down, but the herd moving slowly,
moving constantly to the northward.


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Thicker and thicker and in
larger groups they come, until by the time the grass is well up the
whole vast landscape appears a mass of buffalo, some individuals
feeding, others standing, others lying down, but the herd moving slowly,
moving constantly to the northward.


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Some years, as in 1871, the
buffalo appeared to move northward in one immense column oftentimes from
20 to 50 miles in width, and of unknown depth from front to rear.


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Some years, as in 1871, the
buffalo appeared to move northward in one immense column oftentimes from
20 to 50 miles in width, and of unknown depth from front to rear.

Output:
Other
years the northward journey was made in several parallel columns, moving
at the same rate, and with their numerous flankers covering a width of a
hundred or more miles.


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Other
years the northward journey was made in several parallel columns, moving
at the same rate, and with their numerous flankers covering a width of a
hundred or more miles.

Output:
"The line of march of this great spring migration was not always the
same, though it was confined within certain limits.


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Input:
"The line of march of this great spring migration was not always the
same, though it was confined within certain limits.

Output:
I am informed by old
frontiersmen that it has not within twenty-five years crossed the
Arkansas River east of Great Bend nor west of Big Sand Creek.


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I am informed by old
frontiersmen that it has not within twenty-five years crossed the
Arkansas River east of Great Bend nor west of Big Sand Creek.

Output:
The most
favored routes crossed the Arkansas at the mouth of Walnut Creek, Pawnee
Fork, Mulberry Creek, the Cimarron Crossing, and Big Sand Creek.


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Input:
The most
favored routes crossed the Arkansas at the mouth of Walnut Creek, Pawnee
Fork, Mulberry Creek, the Cimarron Crossing, and Big Sand Creek.

Output:
"As the great herd proceeds northward it is constantly depleted, numbers
wandering off to the right and left, until finally it is scattered in
small herds far and wide over the vast feeding grounds, where they pass
the summer.


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"As the great herd proceeds northward it is constantly depleted, numbers
wandering off to the right and left, until finally it is scattered in
small herds far and wide over the vast feeding grounds, where they pass
the summer.

Output:
"When the food in one locality fails they go to another, and towards
fall, when the grass of the high prairie becomes parched by the heat and
drought, they gradually work their way back to the south, concentrating
on the rich pastures of Texas and the Indian Territory, whence, the same
instinct acting on all, they are ready to start together on the
northward march as soon as spring starts the grass.


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"When the food in one locality fails they go to another, and towards
fall, when the grass of the high prairie becomes parched by the heat and
drought, they gradually work their way back to the south, concentrating
on the rich pastures of Texas and the Indian Territory, whence, the same
instinct acting on all, they are ready to start together on the
northward march as soon as spring starts the grass.


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[Note 40: Our Wild Indians, p. 283, _et seq._]

So long as the bison held undisputed possession of the great plains his
migratory habits were as above--regular, general, and on a scale that
was truly grand.


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[Note 40: Our Wild Indians, p. 283, _et seq._]

So long as the bison held undisputed possession of the great plains his
migratory habits were as above--regular, general, and on a scale that
was truly grand.

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