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find in the official note-book the following entry. 

 " Robes received to-day. Resolution, by the com- 

 pany, to learn what the law would consider ' Indian 

 tan/ in a suit for damages." They had been shaved 

 so thin that the roots of the hair stuck out on the in- 

 side, while the patent liquid in which they had been 

 soaked gave forth an odor which would have been 

 wonderful for its permanency, if it had not been still 

 more wonderful for its oifensiveness. 



Of the meat, a portion went to our friends, and the 

 balance to Fulton Market, New York. In the first 

 quarter, it carried dyspepsia and disgust, and was so 

 tough that the recipients, with the utmost effort, 

 could not find a tender regret for our danger in 

 obtaining it ; while our New York consignee wrote 

 that the first morning's steaks "finished the market," 

 and very nearly finished his customers. He found it 

 impossible, even by the Fulton Market method of 

 subtraction, to get three hundred dollars' worth of 

 express charges out of half that amount of sales, and 

 suggested a discontinuance of shipments. The buffalo 

 calf died on the cars, which probably saved some- 

 body's bones from being broken in celebration of his 

 maturity. The gray wolf got safely to the State of 

 New York, but escaping soon after, a county hunt be- 

 came necessary, to save the sheep from total extinc- 

 tion. One farmer, in his ire, even went so far as to 

 threaten us with a suit for violating the law, and im- 

 porting a pauper and disreputable character into the 

 State. 



Our experience may be useful to future hunters, to 

 all of whom we would say, unless solely to find amuse- 



