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run. I left the others and got right in the 

 animal's course and lay down to conceal my- 

 self, and as soon as he was near enough I hred 

 and saw the wool fly ofl:'him, but he kept on 

 coming. I put in another cartridge and flred 

 again, when he dashed right at me, and I be- 

 gan to think that I had gotten into a rather 

 bad scrape, but when within a few steps of 

 me, to my infinite relief he fell dead. I after- 

 ward found out that I had not done anything 

 wonderful, but I thought at the time that I 

 knew all about killing buffalo. We resumed 

 our journey, and had gone but a short distance 

 when I noticed a large herd about a mile ofl'. 

 I started and went as close as I thought safe 

 and killed one, and immediately the others 

 rallied round it bellowing and tossing their 

 heads. I thought this a good chance, so I kept 

 blazing away until I got eight. I was certain 

 then that I was the champion buffalo killer of 

 the plains. We soon dressed them and started 

 back to camp. We had gone but a short dis- 

 tance w^hen we saw a large band of Indians 

 coming toward us, which caused us not a little 



