112 THE ADVENTURES OF 



I was right. Scarce a minute had elapsad, 

 when, summoning all his strength he floun- 

 dered, plungged and finally gained his feet 

 and mad made quite a scatterment among his 

 captors, who, however, recovered from their 

 surprise in time to perforate him with bullets, 

 and make him safely dead. During the racket 

 the herd stampeded, and the horses becoming 

 frightened mixed with them, and ran about 

 three miles before they got clear and stopped. 

 When the horses were brought back. Potter 

 proposed ihat we make another dash on 

 them, but I objected, as we already had more 

 meat than we could take back with us 

 and I did not like to see it wasted. He said 

 he wanted to see one of the New Yorkers kill 

 one anyhow, and the two went again after the 

 herd, w^hich by this time had begun to get 

 together again, and in about for hours came 

 back with thirty-six buflfalo tongues. It an- 

 gered me to see such a useless waste of meat, 

 hut they were proud of their achievement and 

 didn't care for me. The two New Yorkers 

 were enjoyed, and one of them said that he 



