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but after a little the herd split at the train 

 and ran around each end. Once they got 

 started this way, all went after the leaders. 



One incident there was, which was quite 

 out of the ordinary and threw the passen- 

 gers in one of the coaches into a frenzy for 

 a few moments. This was when a buffalo 

 bull lost his head and ran crashing into one 

 of the plate-glass windows. He could only 

 get his head and shoulders through, and 

 after one or two futile attempts to jump into 

 the car, backed out and went around like 

 his fellows, but he made a striking and terri- 

 fying picture, his massive head with its long 

 black beard framed in the shattered window. 



It was ten or eleven o'clock when the 

 train had run into the midst of the Thun- 

 dering Herd, and day was breaking in the 

 east when the last of the stragglers went by. 

 Truly it was a strange and bewildering 

 procession, one that those who saw it never 

 forgot. 



