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needed a dozen more balls before he fell for 

 good. 



At that time the buffalo would occasion- 

 ally be scattered among the cattle, but, as a 

 rule, avoided the latter and seemed to be 

 afraid of them ; while the cattle, on the con- 

 trary, had no apparent dread of the buffalo, 

 unless it happened that on some occasion 

 they got caught by a herd of the latter that 

 had stampeded. A settler or small ranch- 

 man, not far from my place, was driving 

 in a team of oxen in a wagon one day three 

 years since, when, in crossing a valley, he 

 encountered a little herd of stampeded 

 buffalo, who, in their blind and heedless 

 terror, ran into him and knocked over the 

 wagon and oxen. The oxen never got over 

 the fright the rough handling caused them, 

 and ever afterward became unmanageable 

 and tore off at sight or smell of a buffalo. 

 It is said that the few buffalo left in the 

 country through which the head waters of 

 the Belle Fourche flow, have practically 



