CHARLES L. YOUNGBLOOD. 21 



dollar overcoat. As it was a partnership coat 

 we took turn about in wearing it. 



We travelled on until we came to what 

 ought to have been ''good hunting," but as we 

 saw no buffalo we were at quite a loss to know 

 how to get them, as there was no timber in 

 which we could conceal ourselves, it being an 

 open prairie with not a tree for many miles. 

 While preparations for camping were being 

 made, I went about twenty miles from the 

 railroad and struck a herd of buffalo. I was 

 careful not to get too close to them for two 

 reasons: a herd of those animals, to a novice, 

 look simply frightful; and I was afraid they 

 would take fright and run away. When I 

 was within about five hundred yards of them 

 I aimed at the herd and fired, and had the 

 supreme satisfaction of seeing my first buffalo 

 fall. I was too much elated to try to get any 

 more just then, though I might easily have 

 done so, but went back to camp to relate what 

 I had done, and we were soon on our way 

 after my buffalo. While on the way w^e saw 

 a large one coming nearly toward us on the 



