The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-14
AN sxclrlno BUFFALO nunr.
iHsli Nye, ia Ne~ yesA M.ssssyl

ii knh Nyes n New Nofk Mefgafyl Nes veEy kr hark Ia ske Aissusy ef IL Laramie plaiaA bu1lAlo were a commoa as tAs nass1epe ars sAere eos. aad oa . good day yoa ui1l see DO so 500 anse- lope h . ride from Laramie City to l.ssa Chaace and beck.
 i Now, however, the hufIalc have taken their flight tEom southern Wyoming and drstsed to the ncsthwess. where sAev r.z sssll hs slain for . lev mcre yearxS Tha day is not distant fear, when ~e VII oaiy have one buffalo apiece for the fes- esgn dudes who come tn oar ccAsss so regain shesr health and mary cas hess- esses.
 We wers rather startled enc day in Laramie hy the howl of buffalo" a shs streets, nos long ago. lneaisiag iatc she matter, toand tAai the game had eeen sighted aeross the tivss. ucs ever three miles tsum town Everybody wAs wild. h ten minutes the lisssy siab,ss sere empty and every man with a team had load ce excited snea moving to- ward the herd.
 h vas grand exodus, and tos . rnile os two n looked hke . mass messlee- There were tvo ox three guns and pos- haps twenty revolvers in the party. Some l ot us were n express vagcns. scme - drays And some in cAvtagea. We hur- ried on exci,edly until the advance guard ct up wild yell. which meant that she I game was in sisht and thas 70 one in that crowd had ever seen baAAlo be- tore.
 Every oaes syss wsre strained to gst . glimpse of the herd. Every one held his | k~~ash s~sfs&ss. C. . k. A. of the stampede. had just decided that the whole thing vas . cell when oac el the party pointed out at hule dtstsnee sa the toos hill ,e our right buffalo ball This was osr ptsy. Oae hundred aad 6fty of us. like an army with NAmssssA had come out here on the plains so daughter thts melancholy brute he vas ,sying to sa, when we hove ia s,shs. and was dosae as wsll, peshaps. as asy old butiAlo could without teeth. Hs had worn most of his hait otf when the .eun- try was nes. and n had neglected to gso~ again. His ears had been gna~ed by coyotes and the ravaees of time til they had Hinge oa them over an iaeh deep.
 His back looked like one ot these old tashioned hair trunks. and his little i've cent tail had about as much hair on the end of u as samsod n full bloom. . never sAw sueh . sad looking face. lt had an expression of deep seated voc and pAined suvprise. such as man has when
 hve.saofy brick warehouse falls on him
 He had the same gsieved. sorowtul iook
 of seefoaeh that man might wear if he
 were tc leap ninc-rall fence in the sol-
 emn hush of the night and fall into the
 embrace of a bulldog in the prime oi
 life.
 The old bull raised his head in a col. emn way and tired to snort as he used to
 iu the early history of the country, bus h
 was failure. He then tried io raise hts
 sau and lash his sides with il, but the
 effort was net esosaed with suecess. uia
 tail had forgotten i,s cunning.
 He then Iied to Hash his eye. but if
 wouldn', Hash. lie turned slowly around and. as we'll as the poor old foandessd brute could. he tried to ambis away. 1 Then brave man from the cultivated
 east. wearing a new suit of buekskin tha. ! he had just bought, rode fcaTiessly pp to the old hull and hlled him full of baek- ahot from the muxsle of . second hand ! two dollar gun.
 |. The veteran of the plains fell with . . half beilow. half gtoan and died. He would have died in iew days anyhow. IL was sn sxeising hunt
 The man who assassinased that feeble ', old ball wss al oaee named the Buffalo Slayer. and he had to go somewhsre else to get work. don't know shy h is considered such big thing to kill . but .. fAlo. it is lar more difiiculs ,o kili . good, able bodied elk os deer. 1 saw sn
 Englishmsn al the Palmer house last
 summer who had. no doubt. failed ,o hnd
 badslo doeiie enough to stand sill and
 be shos. so hs was carrying home ts
 Merry Engiand the b,ea.hed aud decay
 ing skull oi buffalo killed fifty yeats ago. peshaps. Yes, sir. he vas eassyiag that thing QUO miles ia . shawl strap.