248 BAYARD'S BISON. 



little time Mr Canterall and one of Bayard's men came up, 

 when I led my horse through the obstacle, and then, with 

 their assistance, remounted, but I was much too exhaust 

 ed to take up the running, even if there had been time for 

 me to do so. 



Away in the hills I then heard Bayard's heavy revolver, 

 when, on proceeding steadily towards the spot whence 

 the report proceeded, a wolf crossed me, but on pointing 

 my carbine, Taymouth, now knowing what that meant, 

 plunged so that he prevented my fire, and constrained me 

 seriously to vow that the day should come when I would 

 try to cut out work enough to make him glad to stand still. 

 I then found Bayard standing over the body of a fine 

 four-year-old bull bison, up to which his steady, splendid, 

 and smooth-going buffalo horse had taken him as straight 

 as a line, and, if I recollect right, he disabled the bull at 

 the first shot, but it charged him very viciously ere he 

 received his death-wound. Before he killed the bull he 

 made a dash at a heifer, but she shut him out in the ruck. 

 This fine young animal being pretty fat, Bayard and Mr 

 (Janterall set about taking as much of his meat as they 

 could carry, and I took his horns, as they were very 

 smooth and evenly grown. 



Pretty well laden with spoil we were on our way to 

 camp, when we saw several bulls at feed, one of whom 

 was so situated that he might be approached on foot. To 

 this bull I approached to about a hundred yards, and shot 

 at and hit him, as my ear told me, but he went off, as 

 bisons will go off, if not hit in some spot that is almost 

 fatal, and I was too weak and tired to attempt the run. On 

 reaching camp we found that some bisons had crossed so 

 near the line of inarch that the men had had a volley at one, 

 and had succeeded at first in only wounding him and then 



