238 A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN. 



and a notice appeared very recently in the Even- 

 ing Standard, to the effect that a herd a hundred 

 strong had been found in a remote part of Texas, 

 and that an expedition had been sent out to 

 drive this herd into a certain enclosure for 

 preservation. 



One of the results of the extermination of the 

 buffalo appears to be that a fierce war is now 

 being waged upon his kinsman, the musk ox ; for 

 in Montreal and Quebec nowadays, the rug 

 which adorns the sleigh, and was always wont to 

 be a buffalo robe, is now musk ox. A more 

 serious result, so some of the North- West men 

 allege, is that the water-holes at which the herds 

 drank are now drying up ; while the water-fowl, 

 which used to come in thousands, now scarcely 

 come in tens. The tramping hoofs of the buffa- 

 loes used to cake the bottoms of these pools, 

 which now crack, so that water leaks away. 



