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for twenty-five dollars and got nothing, and 

 in one day I had made twice that amount. 

 We drove back to the station, and there we 

 had some more of the humps cooked for dinner, 

 but my friends did not like them as v/ell as 

 they did my cooking out on the range. 



The next day I bade my English friends 

 farewell, and with the man Howard, men- 

 tioned before, again struck out for the range. 

 At White Woman Creek I struck a large herd 

 of buffalo, standing in the creek drinking, but 

 before I could get close enough to shoot they 

 started out, and I tired on them at long range, 

 killing a large cow. She was just going up 

 the bank, and when I struck her she came 

 rolling down toward the water. She rolled 

 off the bluff bank, about twelve feet high, and 

 struck in thin mud and went most entirely 

 under. Howard and I worked some time 

 trying to get her out, but so deep was she in 

 the mud that we could not move her. So we 

 gave it up as a bad job and went on after the 

 rest of the herd. I fired several shots at them 

 but only breaking the shoulder of a calf about 



