Telegram-herald., 1889-07-08

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There maloa bat4l9 feeding ca the
prairie on.y tkres naiIss osies here, hs
exclaimed. s-sn1 lot uore tesn eosrter of
Ile fram the ra'.ro&d tr.cS. Let's go
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tex Hia4tes after tLs operator DroagAt rae
TIE news, We Eac2ufed = hand ear, snd,
accompanied by ons II The tr2ek re epzlrers,
were spinning aleag toward tae spot where
tie bafz.oss were FeEsr-ed 70 De feeding
Ias report h2al't been exaggef4,se, except
that he bUh2.oes were lesIlAg - nearer
than ulie from tas TRACK. That w4s tie
EGst herd u bqSa I lad seen. / saw many
a DIX Oas sflerwar3 bat never saw one ll-t
could compare Ia sastHess with this ereat
bison gathering TIE prairie seemed hlled
with them. IueY formed one bacs, ue-
broken. unduiAlng mass thai seemed
bounded Cuy - the horizon Au1 stretched
eastward aud westward as fGr IS tie eye
could follow IT, Tue herd was on the north
side of the railroad, aud feeding toward ".
DeraiIng our h4nd-car and taklng our guns,
We proceeded cautiously across tne praiue,
half creepiug. half crawling. until We bad
succeeded in approaching 70 within quar-
ter OF mile OF the advance guard OF tie
mighty host
AS we lay there watching the systematic
arrangement and conduct OF the vast herd,
its divisions aud Subdivisions and ine Of
outposts, our Gttoation was attracted by the
peculiar actions OF various members or one
OF tue lunches which was feeding nearest
to Us. First ono buffalo would give sud
den jump, run several steps, stop and look
back, and then, giving his body u thorough
shaking, would resume his feeding again,
only to repeat his strange maneuvers few
seconds later. Another and another were
affected in the same way, and, one after
another. they finally fell abruptly 10 the
ground, aud lay stretched motionless there
al full length.
alt seems 10 me-" said in a whisper TO
my companion, ''that rattlesnakes are
getting in their work on those bufaloes."
"No," said the trackman, who seemed 10
know something about buffalo, ''the prairis
rattesnake can't kill buffalo. Not as
anyhow. | never saw any thing like that
before, and can't understand it."
To solve the mystery, we concluded to
| fire into that particular bunch, which would
stampede il, and in turn send the entire
herd speeding away over the plain. l was
allowed the privilege OF first fire. crawled
up TO within three hundred yards of the
bunch. magnificent spike bull stood
within easy range, broadside TO me.
aimed at him and fired. He fell where he
| stood. His immediate companions fled.
| The alarm spread along the herd, and soon
| the vast body was laundering away TO the
northward shaking the prairie by their
| mighty tread. Followed by my comrades, /
| rushed up to my trophy. l put my foot on
| his massive neck, and felt proud Of my
| achievement / looked back at my com
| panions. They were standing stock still
| ten feet behind me, their eyes staring at
| something beyond NE and their jaws
| dropping. turned TO see what they were
| looking at and my eyes instantly became as
| staring wide open as theirs were. / never
| knew where he could have come from, but
/ there at the other side of the buffalo had
| shot stood an Indian. He was ut least six
| feet SIX inches tall. He was entirely naked,
/ except that he wore strip of buckskin
| around his loins and quiver of arrows at
| his back. His eyes flashed wickedly as he
| drew himself up TO his fun height, placed
his foot on the buffalo, and, shifting himself
| on his bare breast, exclaimed in naughty
| and imperative tone:
.Ma boofalo-o-or'
Before the Indian had finished making his
positive claim to the buffalo L became pain
fully aware that he was not alone, but that
. IT, A. 4
as ugly as he was, had appeared on the
scene as quietly and mysteriously as he had
| had no intention whatever OF disputing
the red thiefs claim, and | know tha;
neither of my companions had. 1 took my
foot off of the doad bull, which was all the
| Indian knew for resigning my right TO the
trophy. The Indian folded his right arms
aud looked, thought, contemptuously at u.s.
and then exclaimed:
| ''Tabaci"
We interpreted this lightly to mean that
the Indian wanted chew Of tobacco. Sim
ultaneously all three OF us produced big
| plug and reached il toward him. He took
| them ALL bit of a chew from one, aud slowed
the three away somewhere in his breech
| cloth. Then, with n wicked leer, he waved
his hand toward tho railroad We inter.
preted this to mean that we had better go
and we went. The mystery Of the stran &c
| actions Of the bufaloes we had seen fall
was explained. The Indians had been in
hiding on the edge Of the herd, and were
picking OF the choicest Of them with then
noiseless and deadly arrows. We never
looked back until we had reached our hand
car on the track and were to start for home
Then we saw the Indians squatted ia an ex
cited group on the ground.
"They are gambling fer our tobacco, !" saiC
the tracxman.
That was the way shot and lost my frs
buffalo, aud 1 have often congratulated my
self since that I didn't lose my scalp, and
always wondered why that villainous red
skin happened to let me keepit