American Big-Game Hunting 
the Custer fight in 1876, told me of the death 
of a hunting partner of his, which shows how 
dangerous even a dying buffalo may be. 
The two men had started from the railroad 
to go south and bring in a load of meat. On 
finding a bunch of buffalo, they shot down by 
stalking what they required, and then on 
foot went up to the animals to skin them. 
One cow, lying on her side, was still moving 
a little convulsively, but dying. The man 
approached her as if about to cut her throat, 
but when he was within a few feet of her 
head, she sprang to her feet, rushed at him, 
struck him in the chest with her horns, and 
then fell dead. Charley ran up to his part- 
ner, and to his horror saw that the cow’s 
horn had ripped him up from the belly to the 
throat, so that he could see the heart still 
expanding and contracting. 
Charley buried his partner there, and re- 
turning to the town, told his story. He was 
at once arrested on the charge that he had 
murdered his companion, and was obliged to 
return to the place and to assist in digging 
up the body to satisfy the suspicious officials 
of the truth of his statements. 
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