CHAPTER VI. 



Skinning a Buffalo A Panorama of Life and Motion Another Rogue Bull 

 an Escape A good Shot Trying to turn him over The Virtues of a 

 Pipe " Catch him by the Hind-leg and throw him over" How to get 

 at the Tongue. 



BEFORE describing how the flesh of the buffalo is jerked 

 I ought perhaps to have told how the animal is skinned. 

 For though such preliminary operation is easy of perform- 

 ance to the expert, to the uninitiated it presents a difficulty ; 

 unless he has a horse with him, which on my first essay 

 I was without, for my hunter was having a rest, and I had 

 gone out on a quiet stalk a-foot not to get meat, for our 

 jerking table was full, and it was no use wasting it, but 

 because I wanted a good buffalo robe of my own dressing 

 from a bull of my own killing. This was rather a difficult 

 achievement, for at that season of the year only a few old 

 bulls were well furred those who were very fat and had 

 been calved in the autumn. 



The boys had hitherto always gone with the waggon and a 

 pair of mules to fetch in the meat after each run, and it 

 never occurred to me I should find any difficulty in skinning 

 an old bull without assistance. 



