260 The King of the Thundering Herd 



bison, but this representation was usually 

 crude. 



Finally the attention of the buffalo would 

 be attracted by the strange figure coming 

 toward them. One and another would 

 look up from their feeding. Finally one 

 would start to go toward the strange figure, 

 for the buffalo were very curious in the old 

 days before they learned to fear everything 

 that they could not understand. 



As the curious buffalo advanced, the 

 medicine-man would walk slowly toward 

 the outspread wings of the piskun. Other 

 bison would follow the first and soon scores 

 would be following the medicine-man into 

 the waiting wings of the trap. 



When this movement was well under way, 

 a score or two of mounted warriors, who 

 had been waiting upon their ponies for the 

 purpose, would ride slowly up along the 

 sides of the herd, to help guide them 

 into the chute, but they did not hurry them 



