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not eat more than one, but I Avas so hungry 

 and had nothing to eat with them that I easily 

 got aw?y with six. I then hitched up and 

 drove about forty miles when I fell in with a 

 man named Edward Day, who had just killed 

 a buffalo and had the humps with him. I told 

 him that J was as hungry as a wolf and would 

 like to have something to eat, and we stopped, 

 built a lire and cooked a good mess. 



After dinner 1 asked him where the game 

 had gone, and he replied tha he had seen a 

 large herd only about five miles from where 

 we were. This revived my spirits considerably 

 and I immediately started for them and killed 

 six. I camped there that night and the 

 next morning three men came to my camp in 

 a wagon. They had been out to kill buffalo, 

 but had failed, and started back with heavy 

 iiearts. After we had talked a while they said 

 the}^ would give me five dollars if I would 

 show them how to kill a buffalo. I told them 

 I would do so, and w^e were soon after the 

 game. The buffalo were very thick then and 

 we were not long in finding plenty. Bu: the 



