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letters from new owners were made public, and this caught the fancy 

 of the newspapers of the country. It was the occasion of a headline 

 writers' holiday, and some of them stretched themselves to compose 

 such lines as these : "Buffaloes not affectionate won't wag tails or make 

 pets." "Buffaloes not good pets, puppies better." "Little girls mustn't 

 play with bad buffaloes." "Can't tickle buffalo's hoof and get away 

 with it." "Buffalo not family pet, Hoosier learns." "Pet buffalo resents 

 petting." "Buffalo just ain't nice pet." "Uncle Sam informs little girl 

 'affectionate' buffalo just isn't." And there were hundreds of others ! 



One other newspaper headline about a buffalo cost us a very dis 

 tinguished visitor. A wealthy American woman who had married into 

 the nobility of Europe and had become a duchess was traveling in the 

 West with a private car in which was built a specially made apartment 

 with bath for her two-pound Pekinese dog. Her secretary telegraphed, 

 asking that the rangers set aside the rule forbidding dogs and cats in 

 the park so that the Duchess could visit Yellowstone with her Pekinese. 

 If she could not bring the dog, she would not come. She was finally 

 advised that she could bring in the two-pound Pekinese if she would 

 keep it on a chain, a courtesy extended to all through travelers with 

 dogs. Someone laughingly remarked to the chief ranger, "You'd better 

 make provision to protect our buffaloes." 



The rangers got a laugh out of the idea and told it to a newspaper 

 man. The next day it was in newspapers all over the country. The 

 Duchess saw it and was so angered that she refused to visit the park 

 either with or without her Pekinese. So the buffaloes are still safe. 



In the fall of 1924, a buffalo cow was sent to Lincoln Park, Chicago. 

 In May of the next year, there came to the park a card in a small 

 envelope, a typical "stork" announcement, with a stork carrying a baby 

 in its bill at the top of the card. Below was the following : 



"Arrived May 8, 1925 

 Baby Buffalo 

 Weight 120 pounds 

 Mr. and Mrs. Buffalo" 



One of the regrets of the rangers is that they cannot keep the Yel 

 lowstone buffalo herd near a road where the Dudes and Sagebrushers 

 can see hundreds of animals in action. The herd is too powerful and 

 unwieldy to be turned loose near the tourist camps or the hotels. At 

 present the animals are secluded in the Lamar Valley, Behind a strong 

 drift fence running from Mount Norris on one side of the valley across 

 to Mirror Plateau on the other. This fence is seven feet high, built of 

 logs from nine to eighteen inches in diameter. The location is fine for 

 the buffaloes but is not near enough to any road for visitors to see the 





