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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-4-7, Page 7A JOY OP 'FRE Phi i efnnting the 114nfPalo in (lays That Est d Gone By. "A buffalo is more timid Clan those calves been -slug there, and more powerful that a lion. A trifle will scare the wits out, of hien ; but unless yon bit him let a vital part you can almost put a whole eirtridge box into him before you will bring him down," The speaker was a raw-boned front(.grs- man, who for more than thirty yearn had lived in the West. He had taken Greeley's advice and, growu up with the country. He had swung through a wide range, and had lived among the mountains, but now owned a large ranch on the p' -gins. Though engaged extensively in the cattle business there was a time when he was well nigh es largely engorged in the buffalo business. " Yes," ho resumed, "you eau send t them flying as easily as you can a hl ood of chickens, but it will requite the wi d of a thoroughbred horse to catch up with them. And whon a buffalo runs he is the most ungainly, lumbering creature going. " Just about twenty yeers aeu 1 was along here when down from the northeast rolled a big herd of them, containing fully 30,000 blafi tlo. It had been a dry season. I was among the hills yonder when I heard the tiheeder of their heavy gallop. The earth fairly shook beneath their tremendous movement. Great clouds of dust rose Above them, as though a cyclone was tearing up a long race and swept away like the wind. But my pony possessed unusual qualities of speed and I gained on them gradually.. I carne close to the stragglers, but, as I was after some tempting steak, I had no disponi• tion to shoot down anything that I could roach. So pressing on I saw some fine cows ahead, and reaching them I put a couple of bails in the first and and three in the others, which brought them down. Then a couple of rods or so farther in advance I saw a magnificent bull. He was the biggest fellow I had yet seen, with treinenIous shoulders and a inane which was immense. I urged ou my pony as the enormous fellow, then on the edge of the herd, a stalwart protector, lumbered swiftly along. As I drew nearer, his great proportions excited my keenest admiration, and I at once re- solved,that if I got nothing else I must cer- tainly secure him. His magnificent head aud Ms huge hide would be trophies that any hunter might well be proud of. " It was a nip and tuck race, I tell you. The big fellow seemed to catoll ou to my purpose, for he stretched himself out and tore up the earth as his gait increased, mak- ing a spurt of speed which lengthened the distance between us. "But my pony caught the full excitement of the race and bent himself with new energy to his work, and it was but a few minutes when we came up close to the bin fellow's side. I took careful aim and blazed away. Instinctively my horse swerved HO Of HE WON THE Sf. OTti•U N • BY F. S. PALMER T,wo years ago Mr. Lindsay took his two sons and nephew to Lake Melaka for the trent fishing in the last two weeks of August. The boysso enjoyed the place that he premised them to stay through. September. It is contrary to law to catoll trout due frig that month ; however, Joe and Hal Lindsay had good sport gunning for grouse and ducks. But Arthur Blake, not having so wealthy a father as his cousins, owned no shotgun ; and when he wished to join in their shoot. ing expeditions he had to borrow an old muzzle -loading musket belonging to ono of the guides. W Bile the other boys were off hunting, Arthur tried to amuse himself catching mink in deadfalls '—rude traps which the guides taught hien to make. But as ho was an inexperienced trapper and the mink were scarce, not many were captured ; so one evening about the middle of September, when his uncle .announced that he was called back to the city, Arthur was not sorry to leave. Trapping mink was very poor sport. On seeing his eons' disappointed faces, Mr. Lindsay shade a proposal. "Boys," he said "if you three promise to be carotid, I might leave you here a week the earth and filling the air. That sinal away just in time to escape the outward longer with the guides, Even then I'm cut - stream we crossed a short distance back lunge of the beast, who tossed his head to- ting short your holiday by a week, and to was not near so full of water as it is wards us and camo charging after. console you I make this otter; To the one now. But lite buffalo had scouted vt, and But he made only several leaps, when he who gets most game in the next seven days had coma from miles away for it with a resumed his place and went tearing ahead I'll. give my light fowling piece,. mad rush. with still greater spend, Evidently my '+I need a heavier gun ; but this one is "It seemed as they approached that their ball had only grazed him, stimulating him about right for a boy, and you know what a as led by a rather than damaging him. My horse was speed quickened, The herd wbeauty it is. So that Arthur may have a Wombat of great, powerful hulls. Theirat his best and rapidly came up, so that we fair chance to win I'll leave the gun here eyes rolled while their tongues hung from soon were tearing along neck and neck for flim to use," their open mouths, I had watched herds again. On the afternoon of the following Mon - approach and pass mo before. But, hidden We came a little farther off this time day, the last day of the competition, his behind a rook so as not to disturb thorn, I from the animal, when on a line with him, cousins skill in wing -shooting had made it. watched with an entirely new interest the I shot again. He turned quick as a flash self felt, and Arthur was behind in the race. sweep of this het d, impelled by the fiery toward lea me nside struck Mi pony,bof attempt - `Tao led him by a dozen birds and Hal by torments of a consuming thirst. I quickly ing P P' nearly as many. preceived its object, and, as the chamiel of dog holes and lost his footing. Before he Just before dusk of that day, Arthur de - the stream is a trifle deep, 1 judged that could extricate himself the enraged bull was aided to row across the lake and look at there waned be a sudden increase of speed tlpe horaeon us. Hbenis leath.ead wHis as down ush wast so caught tsome traps tr'lghe eveningso clampt along , opposite sslhe for a brief moment when tete banks weregreat wasP and, reached. that his head was prevented from being didn't want the prize gun to get rusty he "I had witnessed a comparatively dry thrown up as highly as ho might flays done. left It at the eamg. rlver•iod quickly covered by a foaming for As it was my pony was lifted from his feet, After visiting the traps he started home• rent, whose rising tides soon swirled and gored and thrown to one side in a heap. I ward. His boat was moving quietly along boiled up to the very top of the shores —a was jerked from my seat and went sprawl- when he noticed, through the twilight some. resell of heavy storms nearer their source. ing over the beast. In tho intense excite- thiny swimming in the water, T concluded from tits impetuous rush of meant of a chase like that, one does not stop It Was too large for a loon or a deer's this turbulent stream of buffalo that the to calculate the risks he runs. head, His curiosity was excited, and he channels of this river would soon be covered "In my condition any one of a dozen in rowed rapidly towards the moving object. find quite filled. But a moment later my stent deatents l would Behind me coseem to be mes a occasis oon re in -f Now it, NIt was a moose. ge had once in seen one :onclusion> were more than realized, For these huge fellows right on a line of m fall, of these animals stuffed and tnere was no when the leader reached steep the very brink It seemd that I would be trampled to • mistaking the over -hanging upper lip and they plunged down the steep bank, and P f; g PP 1 themselves would have suffered no patten- pieces. But I landed on all fours and was broad antlers. lar injury from the sudden and swift des- at once an my feet, shouting and brandish.1 II'o had no weapon, and how should he cent. Because a buffalo, though awkward ing my arms. The mass parted, and I ran capture it? This part of the lake was nor - and weighing a ton, when he Baca down al- to a distance. But tho wounded bull catch- row ; before long the auimal would reach most a precipitous decline will ea combineing sight of me camo charging upon mewith land. a trophic with a slide and roll and leap that, a furious bellow. My bad luck was bound He rowed along side, and snatching up an much lilts a cat, he will soon be right side to continue, for I stumbled and fell. oar tried to strike its head ; but with ono up at the bottoin. It was what came after "Down in tremendous plunges atme came powerful plung the moose was out of reach. them that prevented the leaders from get- the monster. I could not rise quick enough, There seemed no other way of killing it, ting the hest of the bargain in molting the and, falling at the side of an old buffalo and they were approaching ominously near water first. trail—a narrow path worn into the ground the bank. "For this great herd Mus almost a solid, by the marching of countless buffaloes mov- Arthur decided to make another attempt compact mass, and it had acquired such a ing in single file —I rolled into this. The to stun the moose, and this time he rowed momentum in its headlong career that con- beast tore up the ground with its hoofs in around it, gutting between it and the shore. siderations for the fate of the leaders were trying to stop and looked ferociously at mo. As he poised an oar for the blow, the great not of sufs'seje'nt force, if even they had been His savage eyo burned like a coal of fire, and annual glaring at him with menacing eyes' entertainedl soon enough, to perceptibly froth, stained with blood, dripped from his instead of jumping away, threw its weight cheez. its hn vement. So down the banks they t emblcu on top of the leaders, rank after rank, until the channel for a quarter of a mile was full and overflowing with. them. "Yes, the momentum WAS so great and the stop so sudden that from illy point of observation it seemed like an enormous black wave whose edge hail suddenly swol- len higher dmfii the succeeding no:iy, and it was roiling over and over because of the undertow.. Pushed on by the groat mass behind, the builitloes which reached the bank had to leap upon the banks of those ahead for their lives, and so that great mass rolled oe er and•over, throwing many on the opposite bank. You would have supposed that fatal consequences would have resulted to great numbers. "The rush was soon stopped. Then the herd widened out, those in the rear hurry- ing up and down the stream,- ; and those tumbled into a heap into the bed of the stream rapidly extricated themselves until, • in an almost incredibie,short space of time every buffalo was comparatively free, I do not suppose there were more than a dozen that were seriously injured. It is simply rot arkable, the toughness of the buffaloes which used to roam n this great Nest. "Hunting the buffalo is exciting sport. To an old hunter, though, it is usually a simple affair. For a long period during my life the commoness of the hunt rubbed off about all the novelty there was in it and it came to be regarded as quite an ordinary event, "I want to say, too, that the wholesale way in which these huge animals were slaughtered by speculators is something which always riles the blood of a Westerner when it is referred to. And I cannot recall these grand old beasts without being remind- ed of the brutality and unpardonable bloody work of many a white man from the East. "I remember a chase which took place down near the Arkansaw River along in the early spring of,the year '60, I think. Our camp was begs sing to suffer for provisioi?s. One afternoone1 mounted ms, pony, intend• ing to wing some duck in a distant bend of the river, where there were sedgy marshes, and where they found a favorite resort. But I was unable to discover the faintest sign of their presence, and, after exhausting both myself and my pony in a long search beyond, I concluded to stop where I was for the night. The next morning my hunt for bucks was made to appear a small and in- significant pursuit, unworthy of a strong man ; for their in the distance was a great herd of buffalo feeding. It was to the windward, and consequently I ran no risk of being scented. "Hastily eating what fietle lunch I had remaining from the previ ous night I started. Luck fhvored me. I disooverd the serpen- tine flue of a narrow hollow formed by the waters when great rains fell, moving to the Liver. This line wound around rte a long and circuitous fashion until it came near the herd. I was soon into thin hollow, and my pony picked his way down it on a fast walk. As I etude near I could hoar distinctly the rippling; sound which innumerable mouths made as they tore the green grass from the sod. " 1 bad not reached quite the point where I determined to mount the bank and make a charge upon the herd when I came un- expecte lly into an opening where the banks lowerecti..lway, exposing me to the full view of the cows that happened to be browsing in that direction. They instantly tossed their beads and starts i, The attention of others was drawn and:tiwn some balls ave a sharia snort, which was the signal for a general stampede. Away the whole herd plunged. 11 was then or never, So spurring my poi up the grade I tore after em. They ;veru thgood conditi an far leatirng me mouth. Whon in the saddle had noticed the great size of the head ; but lying there with that tossing and dashing head above me, it seemed to be three times as large and ugly and terrible in the extreme. 1 expect. ed every instant to feel the awfulthrust of his horns. His head bumped against me. His enormous mane brushed mo. Tho froth against the side of the boat. The frail craft careened and filling with water went down. When the boat sank Arthur was sucked beneath the surface, and came up coughing and chocking. He was not a good swimmer and realized iris danger. As ho rose abov the water he saw right from his mouth shuttered me. His tremon- in front of hien the antlers of the moose. dous breathing puffed like a steam engine Leaping forward he grasped these, and again and again into lay face. But his drew himself onto the creatures shoulders. horns were too short to catch on readily. I The moose had been sui prised at the dia. knew that my only safety was to lie low and appearance of the boat ; now, feeling the say nothing. Just as I was about to con.,boy astride its neck, it grow frantic, and myself that t gratulate n yso l a the follow could not kicked worse than any mustang.get at me his born tore a rent in mei But Arthur clinched his teeth and hung breeches. The ripping noise maddened him on. It was his one hope ; as long as he sat if possible still more. He made a deeper' firmly on tho swimming animal, holding its scoop for me and caught iny buckskin coat'untlers, he was safe from hoofs, teeth and in the shoulder, jerked me up from the' borne Morever, be was sure to drown if the moose could not be made to tow him ashore. Exhausted by its efforts to unseat the boy, the animal swam quietly for a few moments. Then it stopped moving, began pawing the water and violently shaking itself. Finding that these tactics did not rid it of its burden, the moose threw itself back- ward, teasing and rolling about in the g water. ' seemed the very embodiment of an over- This performance put the boy's head be. whelming force—all this has been indelibly neath the surface, and between shaking and photographed on my brain, though the pro- exertions to retain his hold, he was fast cess was about ori instantaneous as they growing weak. snake them. When within about four or However, his pluck held ont, sustaining five feet cf me I leaped to one side and his him until the moose once more began swim. ---etuous rush swung him straight along. ming quietly towards shore. fent as he tore by me, the very ground Now they were not more than 30 rods shaking with hisjumps, for he weighed over from the bank, and the fierce animal doabt- a ton, I sent a bullet into his side. It pens- less felt that, once on dry land, its revenge Crated his lungs. The others had been would be certain. effective. I could see him reel. The boy believed his strength would not He stopped, turned, was about to make last during another such struggle, and if he another charge, staggered, sank on his knees lost his hold he wouldbe drowned or stamp- ed to death. As he was dragged along something felt heavy in his jacket ; he remembered his large hunting trnife. Here was a possible means of escape. If the moose seemed likely to succeed in throwing hint off, he would try to kill it He saw with joy that they were now so near the shore that he might reach there without• ground, and threw me to the right. I fell sideways, but mostly on my feet, and start- ed on a run in a direction opposite to where his head pointed. "He swung around and was after me in a trice. Of course I could not hope to out- run him. He gained on me. 1 stopped, faced him, and had by this time drawn my revolver. On he came like a hurricane His grizzly and awful front, his fiery eyes, his mi hty, headlong, plunging gait, which his fierce eyes rolling .in mad fury at me. I v his side and put another moved around to ball into him, when he went cleadown and stretched' himself into the last struggle.'; "Come • down and visit me, and as you step across my threshold there in the vesti- bule confronting. you, will be his enormous head, as life -like as the art of taxidermy can present. Look at that grand head and yon will be compelled to give credence to a the animal's assistance. part of my story, at least, and your regrets All this had passed quickly through his will join mine that no more of the noblest mind, and they were yet 10 rods from the land when the boy saw, right in their way, the end of a log rising from the water. Perhaps it would not be necessary to re- sort to the knife, for now he had a new idea. As they passed the log he would spring to this new support and cling there until the angry moose was out of the way. Probably the animal would seek safety in the woods and pay no further attention to him. Ina moment more they: were beside the log. Arthur let go of the -antlers and flung himself through the water. A stroke or two carried him to the log. • Putting one arm over it, he was held above the surface. From here, when the moose had disappear- ed, he would swim ashore. Ha was congratulating himself on hie escape, when he heard an angry snort be- hind. him, and, Glancing over his shoulder, saw the moose, with flashing eyes advancing. He bad over -rated the animal's hurry to get ashore. It was thinking less of escape than of revenge for the ignominy of being made a beast of burden. Arthur had just time to spring to the op - American game is to be found on these great plains." Only one man in 203 is over six feet in height. Great truths are portions of the soul of MAIL ' Doing is the great thing. For if, resolute- ly, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it. " Bitten by an alleged mad dog" is the mild way in which it is glut in some papers, to avoid hurting the dogs feelings should he merely be labor ,q under a temporary aber- ration. • One of the smallest coins in size is the new cuatroreal gold piece of Guatemala. On February 2, 1641, Sir Edward Jering was put out of the House and committed to the Tower for his strange, unadvised, and sudden differing from himself." Ab a Catholic convent in Fort Berthold, N. D., all the sisters, including the mother posits side of the log as the angry creature superioi, are Indians, and the spiritual plunked at hien. He now saw its full face director is a priest of Mohawk descent. and realized its ugliness. Small, r eked The people of Rome get their supply of eyes, long, drooping upper lip, white •1ts water, which is said to be remarkably pure, and sharp horns, made up a picture i r from the Apennines through an ancient from pleasing to the frightened boy. aqueduct that was constructed by their Again the moose sprang through the forefathers: water, and again he dodged the onslaught, Being out of breath, it rested for a moment. This breathing space gave Arthur time to open his hunting -knife. its the animal again came on, lie moved aside, and as the broad nook passed struck several rapid blows, with his knife. The moose turned, but this time Arthur con- fronted it, and, though feeling a blow from its fore foot, thrust forward the blade again atm again. The boy managed to pull himself to the other side of the log, anti the moose had no strength to follow. The great animal floundered about fora few minutes, and then lay quietly. Soon after, when Mr. Lindsay was being rowed across the lake on his return to the camp, he heard a .faint shout corning front out the dnist. He turned to ono side and found his nephew,, as yet too exhausted to attempt swimming ashore, clinging to the log ; in the water near him was a great, shaggy mass. - Tho moose was taken in tow, and, with- out waiting for explanations, Mr. Lindsay hurried the chilled boy to the campfire. After supper Arthur tolyl his story. "A plucky fight," commented his uncle. And now boys." turning to his sons, "I suppose there's no doubt who gets the shot- gnn; you haven't been killing moose, too have you?" The next autumn, when the three boys were again at lake Molake, Arthur could hold his own at shooting ; he had made use of the prize gun and was now as skillful a wing shot as either of hie cousins. Parents cannot name their children just what they please inGlermany. 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