The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26

breed, and Houlle said that he thought
hat it was funny. too, but he didn't
look as If he spoke the truth We
drove about 20 miles over the prairie
following cattle trails most of the way,
hunting for those buffalo.
Houlle's stag hounds followed us.
ranging here and there for signs of a
coyote. This photograph business was
too much for them. They could only
imagine that we were after coyotes
and yet the wagon was a queer thing
to chase coyotes in. Still they ranged
and, on the south slope of the butte,
standing on a ridge overlooking run
way to the river, the half-breed spied
me of the sneaking beasts. He show
ed the animal to Houlle and the latter
hallooed to the hounds They were off
like bullets and the coyote took the
hint. He settled down to business.
1t was well that he did. The yellow
stag hound, Dewey by name, ran like
quarterhorse. His black companion
trailed him closely and then ensued
as pretty chase as anybody ever
hunted the other side of the butte 1t
was useless to attempt to follow with
the heavy wagon and the hounds dis
couraged by the absence of their mas
ter, relinquished the chase after hav-
ing given the wolf a run Of three
miles. Mr.. Coyote escaped, but the
incident served to cheer up Houle
who took up the search for the buff
falo in better humor than he had man
ifested for an hour. But he constant
ly lamented the fact that the hounds
had not killed the coyote. He would
have had a dead wolf if he had only
brought along a saddle horse That
was all that the dogs needed
While he was thus lamenting he es-
pied the buffalo, band of SO or more
They were slowly working their way
up from the lower valley, where they
had been for water, and were punched
when we saw them, on the slope of the
butte that we had passed an hour be-
fore. In this band were few bulls,
lot of cows and a number of calves.
The presence of the calves made the
as good success in approaching them
as we had with the solitary bulls. Still,
they were not alarmed by the camera.
Whenever it was set up for action the
lows would crowd their youngsters
INTO the middle of the band so that 1t
was not easy to get a view of the
bunch that would show the little fell
lows properly. We walked around
with the team as a screen and the
buffalo posed till we had all the pic
lures that we wanted. The half-breed
insisted that we took too long chance
and his frequent yells of warning,
given whenever he saw a quick move
ment on the part Of any Of the herd,
disturbed the animals more than any,
thing that the camera did The herd
moved slowly, so that we were able to
secure several excellent pictures of
this bunch. Finally. when we had but
one plate left, we sent the half-breed
around the bunch with instructions to
yell and wave his coat. He did this
and the herd broke into a numbering
gallop. The camera was leveled unon
them as they sped past and a snap was
taken. 1t did not result very salts
factorily. The figures were distinct
enough, but too small. That was the
only failure that we had in all .se
plates On the brow of the slight hill
that lay back of US, the herd stopped
and looked back to see If the half breed
was still after them. Seeing that he
had desisted. the buffalo stopped and
watched us move away.
We were 10 miles from the Allard
ranch and the sun was getting low.
Houlle turned his horses toward Mud
creek and we bumped over the rough
prairie at a rate that threatened the
demolition Of the camera and the de-
struction of the members of the party.
But Houlle knew the country and. just
at dusk we pulled up at the ranch once
more. Trowbridge packed up his ma