In Buffalo Days 
turn a somersault, and almost at the same 
instant heard Charley shoot twice in quick 
succession, and saw two buffalo fall. I fired 
at a fat young cow that I had pushed my 
pony up close to. At the shot she whirled, 
my horse did the same, and she chased me as 
hard as she could go for seventy-five yards, 
while I did some exceedingly vigorous spur- 
ring, for she was close behind me all the time. 
To do my horse justice, I think that he would 
have run as fast as he could, even without the 
spurs, for he appreciated the situation. At 
no time was there any immediate danger that 
the cow would overtake us; if there had 
been, I should have dodged her. Presently 
the cow stopped, and stood there very sick. 
When I rode back, I did not find it easy to 
get my horse near her; but another shot was 
not needed, and while I sat looking at her 
she fell over dead. The three buffalo first 
killed had fallen within a hundred yards of 
the trail where the wagons afterward passed, 
and my cow was but little farther away. The 
command soon came up, the soldiers did the 
butchering, and before long we were on the 
march again across the parched plain. 
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