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buffalo hunt. There was a man of the East and 

 the impression remains that he came from Philadel- 

 phia, too, more is the shame to Philadelphia! who 

 organized the most peculiar buffalo hunt on record. 

 He bought a buffalo bull of a zoological park, had it 

 shipped to him, took it out into the woods back 

 of his house, calmly shot it, and had its head 

 mounted! Even this was almost as exciting as 

 some of the "hunts" for tame buffalo, stories of 

 which now and again come from Oklahoma or one 

 of the Indian reservations of Dakota. There was 

 an automobile taking part in one of the latest of 

 these modern buffalo hunts. We go hunting now 

 for any manner of big game personally con- 

 ducted by the licensed guide who shows us last 

 year's elk tracks for our money or tells tales of 

 a buffalo wallow which was once seen on his 

 father's farm. 



Yet all this high-grade, well-systematized butch- 

 ery in which the Beef Trust did not play a part 

 ended only about twenty years ago. The Indians 

 refuse to believe that it is ended. They pray to their 

 leaders among the white men to take them North, 

 far away, "where the buffalo have gone." Being 

 told there is no such land they take it out in praying 

 for a hereafter in which there shall be plenty of 

 buffalo. One of these days some of us white Amer- 



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