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calibre, made to load and shoot eight times a 

 minute. It would throw a ball to kill a dis- 

 tance of live miles. I have killed buffalo with 

 it at a mile, and have shot with it so far that I 

 had plenty of time to take my head from it 

 and see the ball strike. 



Soon after I hurt my hand two of the men 

 went off, and there were only myself and an- 

 other man left, but he was a good shot and 

 we got along very well. We were out shoot- 

 ing one day back about 20 miles on Cold Hell 

 Creek, and, besides killing several buffalo, 

 we wounded one cow that lay down and my 

 partner went out to kill her. Before he got 

 very close to her, she sprang to her feet 

 and made a dash at him. The reader will 

 bear in mind that a buffalo, when badly 

 wounded, gets desperate, and will rush head- 

 long at its enemy with a force that makes it 

 very much safer to be out of the way. When 

 he saw what she meant he dropped on one 

 knee, and taking rest on the other, waited until 

 she was within twelve feet of him, when he 

 fired, hitting, her in the jaw, stunning her, and 



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