The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-10-18

Me-"
Yes mel mean you!"
oh: At last she understood.
Where are We all three going to
live? You know, Mr. Bonny-"
A horrible fear smote me. Great
heavens" l cried, rs he going to
marry you, too?"
That's what he said" averred
Madge.
He never shalt" swore. "In
kill him like would IA buffalo"
! think Madge laughs too much
sometimes
THE idea Of you killing a b-u-f.
fa-l-o! Ill tell you what Ill DIDO.
Ill marry the first one OF you that
d.does k.kill a bufhehehalo!'
l would rather Madge had accepted
me In more conventional manner.
but suppressing all selfish considera.
ton. ! cried: "Done!" and was Off to
challenge Bonny. lie accepted read.
lily.
A week later found us campcd In
the then sparsely buffalo.settled re.
gion OF Colorado The first day we
spent trying to get Suggestions rela-
tive to buffalo hunting These sugges.
tons We're discussed over our coffee
that evening
Cowboys tall men west Of the Mis-
sissippi were cowboys to him) are
oowards," said Bonny. Il asked one
of them IL you We're | where would
you 60 to hunt buffaloes?' Where l
would be least likely to find them he
replied. My good man. said l. kind.
ly tell me how you do bring down
buffalo He took another chew of to.
bacco and squirting one eye, re-
Piled: I shoot them in their tracks.
That is the best place for you to
shoot buffalo, young man, right in
its tracks, and the older the tracks
are, the better"
My own information had been more
practical ! had been told to lasso my
buffalo and tie IL to the nearest tree,
where could shoot It without danger.
at least to the buffalo," my inform.
ant added absent mindcdly.
Unfortunately, forgot my lasso the
next morning and had to depend en-
tirely upon my gun.
While we lunched Bonny was ap.
parently seized with an attack Of dell.
rum tremens.
Buffalo, bufIalo!" he shrieked, and
danced about.
"A cluster of them?" asked.
only a solitaire" he shouted, but
it's mine" and mounting his horse
he backed rapidly away, presumably
to keep the buffalo in sight while he
circled 1t, Rival as be was, had to
admit that It was the tactic of a brave
man.
AS for me, bodily started toward
the buffalo. had gone but a short
distance when ! came to an old dug
out which had partly filled, leaving
enough ingress for man nearly half
my size to crawl through. The ami
NAL, seeming danger, approached me.
Fearing lest frighten it away, got
as far as ! could into the dag0ut. The
buffalo came on. its head lowered, it's |
tail furiously lashing at the iiIes on,
until it was within twenty feet VI me.
slipped rac rest OF the way into
the dugout, and though my heart beat |
like a sledge hammer, | coPl!y put |
my gun to my shoulder. brac"i my |
self firmly against 'he fJct'r. wall, |
ard with bated breath wa ciad the |
majestic creature move Slowly by and |
out OF range Il my gHG. painted
to pursue, but found thai I wound re-
ouire an hours work with NJ KNIFE
to enlarge the egress sufficiently tor
me to get out. When did get out.
the buffalo had escaped, aGd 10 the
distance beheld Fonny spurr9' his
horse to full speed was Gisg ted
with Benny. Why should he sil ca mly
on his horse within n r. Of IT, ltfa
10, let it escape him, and then Id
such trepilation because it had one
SO?
On the return | found a con'ja OF
men skinn.ng bu1al9ea. ] b. q
hide. went on AID was first 10 oh
camp. Pretty soon Doal.y al...aJ !
"Well?" sal he.
yell" said l.
What DO you think Of this H. he
unrclled d fr-ah / Ic.
Il TANK YOU az about IS s.,
| am, eyasiveiv am 'erfd.
CID YOU shoot your hnt -?
Right in its traces ss'c /
While We glarei at caoA !
collect Telegram |sa 1goI
read:
bort siav buffalo. ha'
Nsdge. RI. M.els."