Holbrook argus., 1910-02-15

to- work which was quite sumptuous.
 'I had planted some corn, an that's all that ever happened to that corn. So one day was tryin to coax it out of the ground, it being that reluctant m shy an backward that it was ashamed to show it's face in Kansas an l don't blame it-so I dug up some of it to see if 1t was still there. It was For allI know, it's there yet Anyhow, I never saw hair or hide of it.
 Anyway I was out where the corn could be if it had mind. whin me brother came runnin' up from an other part of me sumptuous estate. He was excited, an his eyes was sparklin' an I knew there must be something doin
 Perhaps says I, to meself, I says. perhaps he has discovered blade of corn,' 1 says. I dunno Yer see was prepared of anything.
 Sunset says he, pantin', an his eyes afire, there's something over that looks like a cross between a COW an a rhinoceros,' he says.
 "'Pooh. pooh.' says I Me lad, yer've bin drinkin',' says, airily. It's the hoss,' I says.
 "'Yer durued fool,' says he, T was plowin' the hoss whin it came along he says. an the hoss h'isted his tail an wint to glory. blow an all,' says he, an I reckin be this time he's plowed a furrow all the way to Gin cinnati,' he says.
 Then 1 saw as how 1t behooved me to- get up an open a jackpot or something, for that hoss stood be- tween me an starvation. If the claim 1idn't develop I might have to eat hat hoss. So I scuttled across with ne brother to get a look. Be the hades of St. Patrick it was a buffalo "a buffalo with buff all over him. He was chewin' up all me tomato vines-thim vines I had raised be hand, as it were. an considered me brothers and sisters.
 Shoo,' says I, to the buffalo. 'Shoo,' says, or I'll come over there an kick hole in yer says I.
 He looked up at me with me to- nato vines a-meanderin' out of his lfouth, an snorted. If I didn't fall lead, the Lord knows 1t wasn't be- cause I wasn't expectin' to- Never having had any speakin' acquaintance with buffalo, I didn't know wheth- CT he'd bite or kick or swally me alive, or what. any one or which.
 "'Let me kill him. says me brother
 "'Sure, says I. Me lad, if yer think yer can kill him, wade in an take holt I says.
 With the shotgun says me brother.
 We'll says I. beginnin' to re- cover me jaunty air, for I was a reglar divil thim days. Well. says, yer go git the gun while watch him But says. I think it might be good idea to catch him an tame him.
 says. He looks like he might be Ibie to yank plow.' says I. from Monday to Mississippi says.
 DO yer know anything about buff aloes?' says me brother
 Me lad,' says I. T know all about him. I says. They're as harmless IS kittens,' says I, If yer tie them omewhere an climb tree,' I says. Yer go get the gun.' I says.
 And he wint, leavin me alone in he middle of a large prairie. with a buffalo. If that fellow had started tt me I wouldn't have touched any hing but the high places. Subse- uent prOceedin's showed didn't ven touch thim. but-anyhow he idnt know 1t. Reminder, had never cen buffalo before. I didn't know his capabilities at all. at all think
 was a brave man.
 "Whin me brother had gone, the buffalo took one tong squint at me. n thin returned to me tomato vines was a fine lunch he was havin 1e was eatin' me heart out. So cas- ially shied a stone. He looked at me, aStonished like, chewed up his last mouthtul. took long breath. an ,tarted for me. l had just backed pp o get a good start for distance race. Thin me brother appeared over the lillock an fired the gun
 The buffalo got charge of bird hot in his hind quarters, an he urned tail an wint away from there .ellowln' scandalous. He was in nurry: an his language was that ob- scene an indecent that l was shocked TOT me brothers sake. It was worse'n q political speaker.
 Charge, says I to me brother With the buffalo goin the other way. 1 felt like Napoleon.
 Charge yerself,' says me brother or wait till get the gun loaded he says. The gun was muZZle loader -one of thim guns which If yer didn't kill what yer shot at the first crack. it would come up an bite yer in the face while yer were reloadin'. It was a grand gun. I never shot anything with 1t but a prairie dog, an I missed