CONTENTS. Xvil 



PAGES. 



NAL GRAPE-SHOT NATURE'S BOMB-SHELLS CRAWLING BEDOUINS 

 "THAR THEY HUMP" THE SLAUGHTER BEGUN AN INEFFECTUAL 

 CHARGE "RETCHING THE CRITTER" RETURN TO CAMP CALVES' 



HEAD ON THE STOMACH AN UNPLEASANT EPISODE WOLF BAITING, 



AND HOW IT IS DONE, 280-29'i 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE CAYOTES' STRYCHNINE FEAST CAPTURING A TIMBER WOLF A FEW 

 CORDS OF VICTIMS WHAT THE LAW CONSIDERS "INDIAN TAN" 

 "FINISHING" THE NEW YORK MARKET A NEW YORK FARMER'S 



OPINION OF OUR GRAY WOLF WESTWARD AGAIN EPISODES IN OUR 

 JOURNEY THE WILD HUNTRESS OF THE PLAINS WAS OUR GUIDE A 

 MURDERER? THE READER JOINS US IN A BUFFALO CHASE THK 

 DYING AGONIES, 292-305 



CHAPTER XXI. 



"CREASING" WILD HORSES MUGGS DISAPPOINTED A FEAT FOR FIC- 

 TION HORSE AND MONKEY HOOF WISDOM FOR TURFMEN PROS- 

 PECTIVE CLIMATIC CHANGES ON THE PLAINS THE QUESTION OF 

 SPONTANEOUS GENERATION WANTON SLAUGHTER OF BUFFALO 

 AMOUNT OF ROBES AND MEAT ANNUALLY WASTED A STRANGE 

 HABIT OF THE BISON NUMEROUS BILLS THE "SNEAK THIEF" OF 

 THE PLAINS, 306-317 



CHAPTER XXII. 



A. LIVE TOWN AND ITS GRAVE-YARD HONEST ROMBEAUX IN TROUBLE 



JUDGE LYNCH HOLDS COURT MARIE AND THE VINE-COVERED COT- 

 TAGE THE TERRIBLE FLOODS DEATH IN CAMP AND IN THE DUG- 

 OUT WAS IT THE WATER WHICH DID IT ? DISCOVERY OF A HUGE 

 FOSSIL THE MOSASAURUS OF THE CRETACEOUS SEA A GLIMPSE 

 OF THE REPTILIAN AGE REMINISCENCES OF ALLIGATOR-SHOOTING . 

 THEY SUGGEST A THEORY, 318-329 



