CHARLES L. YOUNGBLOOD. I 75 



one who offered live dollars to teach him how 

 to kill them was so much afraid of them that 

 I could hardly get him near enough to do so ; 

 but I got him as close as I could and showed 

 him which one to kill and he fired away but 

 missed clear. I saw that 1 had a hard task 

 and must get him closer, so I shot and crippled 

 one and put him after it. It moved off slowly 

 and he fired some twenty shots at it without 

 any visible effect, and I moved him up within 

 fifty yards of it, but by this this time he was 

 so nervous that he shook as if he had an ague 

 fit, and missed again. The buffalo, seeing us 

 about to overtake it, turned for light, and I 

 had to shoot it down at last. I told him to 

 shoot it quick before it was dead, and he ran 

 ran up and put a ball in its ham, and turning 

 to me handed me the five dollars. He thanked 

 me very kindly, asked me to skin its head, 

 and said he was going to have it stuffed and 

 when he was an old man he would exhibit it 

 to his grandchildren as a relic of his exploits 

 as a great hunter. 



We then camped there for the night, but as 



