The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-22
TANNING DUFFALOE:S
CALVES SHOW NO FoNDNESS FOR
HAVING PICTURE TAKEN.
The Creatures Very Strong and Fierce
Separating Young from Mother
Very Hard to Capture
and Crate.

AS soon Is the camera, broken in my
efforts to dodge the savage buffalo, had
been mended, we were ready to con.
niue u work Of photographing the
buffalo cows and their calves at Corbin
park. AS we entered the buffalo yards.
| was interested to note the effect
which a narrow escape | had had the
day before had had on my nerves. l was
just rs determined to get the photo
graphs, and in a sense / felt no more
fear than before, but I was fully con-
scious that a change had taken place
in the condition of my nerves, and that
my heart was beating faster than usual
when I went out to take the portrait
Of a certain tawny calf. l had another
rather close call that day, but not so
close a one as had Morrison, the buff
falo man, who was helping me, and
whose picture I got as he was shin
ming owe a fence, with an angry COW
buffalo just below, foiled in her best
intentions Of helping him over that
self-same fence. Morrison is afraid of
nothing with horns and hoofs on it.
but he has had a very wholesome re-
spect for COW b~uffaloes, ever since the
day when he did not get over the fence
er bison pinned his legs to the boards,
and caused him to go on crutches for
three months afterwards.
After we had taken a few more pic
lures, it was decided to capture the
calves which | was to bring up by
hand. First of all it was necessary to
separate them from their mothers, who
otherwise would, of course, kill anyone
who laid a hand on their babies. In
order to separate them, it was neceS-
sary to drive all the cows and calves
from the buffalo yards to a series Of
away, and as these pens opened n
into another, we expected to be able to
accomplish our object without much
danger. A special fence had been
built between the yards and the cattle
pens, into which the buffaloes allowed
themselves to be driven without Of
much resistance. Gradually, by
careful driving, the skillful opening
and shutting of gates, and a fearless
maintained by Morrison
throughout, the separation was eff
and we had the cows in one
pen and their calves in the next. But
what a hubbub there wasi The cows,
mad as hornets, were rushing up and
down the fence, and grunting savage
ly, while the calves on the other side
were galloping this way and that, leap
ing clean over one another in their eff
forts to rejoin their mothers. Now
the little job of putting them into
the crates, and no one who has not
handled buffalo calves can quite un-
Gerstand the fun it
They raced from point to point.
slap into the fence until it
that they must surely break
heir necks, and did about every NOR
al thing except go into the crates. So
t was decided that they should be
by hand. Four of the strong
men on the place, besides myself,
the pen, and then the real work
,egan. The calves were pretty tired by
his time, and their tongues were loll-
ng far out of their mouths, but they
we're conquered not one little bit.
every now and then. M of them
would come at full speed, catch a man
,elow his waist line, and send him to
he dust. Presently one of the little
camps came past me, and crashed
light into the board fence, and fell at
ny feet. I thought that he had killed
imself, but instinctively I threw my
elf upon him. He was only slightly
TUNED, and the next instant he was
his feet, and I was off mine. I
ould not have held him for ten Sec
nds, had not two big fellows come up
nd thrown their arms around him.
lie kicked, butted and plunged, until
/ seemed that he might get away, in
pfte of us all, but one seized his fore
another his hind legs, and the
bird took him round the body. When
e found that he was really a captive,
e opened his mouth and bawled with
his might, and all the cows in the
ext Enclosure answered him at once,
nd ground their heads against the
n until we feared it might give
,ay. We prayed that it would hold:
re knew what would happen if it
idn't. The three of US finally got the
alf into a deer crate, and in the mean
me the other two men had captured
mother. When the second one was
into the crate, there was a fight
t once, and the two little wild things
one another vigorously ON gem
raj principles. A little later another
rate had two occupants, and we left
lem to quiet down.
ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES