Bo2 FRIENDS WORTH KNOWING. 
When belligerent, the old bulls make the most blustering 
demonstrations, but. are really cowardly. Facing the ap- 
proaching hunter with a boastful and defiant air, they will 
pace to and fro, threateningly pawing the earth, only to 
take to their heels the next moment. The bulls greatly 
enjoy pawing the earth and throwing it up with their 
horns, digging into banks or getting down upon one knee 
to strike into the level surface, so that the sheaths of their 
horns are always badly splintered. They are very fond, too, 
of rubbing themselves, and evidently regard the telegraph- 
poles along the railroads as set there for their especial con- 
venience in this respect. A line of telegraph was built 
between Helena, Montana, and Fort Benton. But it was 
found impracticable to maintain it beyond Fort Shaw, 
where the mountains end, and when I passed there in 1877 
the attempt had been abandoned. The buffaloes pushed 
the poles down, and then getting entangled in the wire, 
broke it to pieces. Fragments of this wire, twisted about 
their horns, were carried many miles, and are still occasion- 
ally picked up by hunters all over the grassy uplands that 
stretch so boundlessly northward from the upper Missouri. 
But their chief delight is “ wallowing.’ Finding in the 
low parts of the prairie a little stagnant water among the 
grass, or at least the surface soft and moist, an old bull 
