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kept blazing avva}' at everything they saw. 

 The wolves seemed very hungry and came 

 howling around quite close to us and my doc- 

 tors killed several during^ the night with their 

 stot-guns. 



They were well pleased with the sport and 

 in the morning wc harnessed up and started 

 to find some butfalo. But just at that time 

 nearly everybody was after buffalo and ante- 

 lope, and some days one could see as many as 

 lift}' wagons going in every direction tor meat, 

 and would not know what to do if they should 

 happen to stumble on a herd. They were 

 around with anything they could get hold of, 

 including knives, pistols, shot guns, etc. They 

 would ask me if the buffalo would fight, and 

 some seemed to imagine that they could ride 

 right up by the side of one and kill it with a 

 pistol or knife, and if they found a herd they 

 would rush right up as if they expected them 

 to stand still until they caught them by the 

 tails and cut their throats. In fact their crazy 

 rush and racket frightened the buffalo and 

 antelope out of the country and caused them 



