American Big Game in its Haunts 



though without any difficulty I walked up to 

 within fifty yards of them. Handsome though the 

 black-tail is, the white-tail is the most beautiful of 

 all deer when in motion, because of the springy, 

 bounding grace of its trot and canter, and the way 

 it carries its head and white flag aloft. 



Before reaching the Mammoth Hot Springs we 

 also saw a number of ducks in the little pools and 

 on the Gardiner. Some of them were rather shy. 

 Others — probably those which, as Major Pitcher 

 informed me, had spent the winter there — were as 

 tame as barnyard fowls. 



Just before reaching the post the Major took 

 me into the big field where Buffalo Jones had some 

 Texas and Flat Head Lake buffalo — bulls and 

 cows — which he was tending with solicitous care. 

 The original stock of buffalo in the Park have now 

 been reduced to fifteen or twenty individuals, and 

 the intention is to try to mix them with the score 

 of buffalo which have been purchased out of the 

 Flat Head Lake and Texas Panhandle herds. The 

 buffalo were put within a wire fence, which, when It 

 was built, was found to have included both black- 

 tail and white-tail deer. A bull elk was also put In 

 with them at one time — he having met with some 

 accident which made the Major and Buffalo Jones 

 bring him in to doctor him. When he recovered 



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