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stew, and caused biscuits to vanish in a way that 

 would not have shamed a Hindoo magician. The 

 grand canon he dug in my jar of jam, however, could 

 not have been accomplished by legerdemain. 



Talk became animated on dogs, cougars, horses 

 and buffalo. Jones told of our experience out on 

 the range, and concluded with some salient remarks. 



&quot; A tame wild animal is the most dangerous of 

 beasts. My old friend, Dick Rock, a great hunter and 

 guide out of Idaho, laughed at my advice, and got 

 killed by one of his three-year-old bulls. I told him 

 they knew him just well enough to kill him, and 

 they did. My friend, A. H. Cole, of Oxford, 

 Nebraska, tried to rope a Weetah that was too tame 

 to be safe, and the bull killed him. Same with 

 General Bull, a member of the Kansas Legislature, 

 and two cowboys who went into a corral to tie up a 

 tame elk at the wrong time. I pleaded with them 

 not to undertake it. They had not studied animals 

 as I had. That tame elk killed all of them. He 

 had to be shot in order to get General Bull off his 

 great antlers. You see, a wild animal must learn to 

 respect a man. The way I used to teach the Yellow 

 stone Park bears to be respectful and safe neighbors 

 was to rope them around the front paw, swing them 

 up on a tree clear of the ground, and whip them 

 with a long pole. It was a dangerous business, and 



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