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back toward us for dear life. As soon as the 

 buffalo saw him it turned and ran too, but he 

 supposed it was right after him and was ex- 

 pecting at every step to be caught, and made 

 his tracks as fast and as far apart as he could, 

 w^hile the buffalo was going as fast as it could 

 in an opposite direction. He looked a little 

 sheepish when he brought up and saw the 

 buffalo away off and running as fast as he 

 could in another direction, but he thought 

 he had run a frightful risk and was not at all 

 anxious after that to have it said that he 

 "killed a buffalo." 



Another time he and I were out together 

 and were skinning several buffalo that we had 

 killed. We came to one that was not quite 

 dead, so I said that I would whet my knife 

 while it was dying. I laid down my gun, and 

 had hardly commenced sharpening my knife, 

 when Allred screamed "Look out ! Look 

 out ! " I raised my head and saw that it was 

 nearly on us. I had not time to pick up my 

 gun and had to run without it. The animal 

 stopped at the gun and began pawing it, and 



