CONTENTS. XVll 



PAOU. 



NAL GRAPK-SHOT — NATURE S BOMB-SHELLS — CRAWLING BEDOUINS — 



•'THAR THEY HUMP" THE SLAOGHTEB BEGUN AN INEFFECTUAL 



CHARGB — "KETCHING THE CRITTER " — RETURN TO CAMP — CALVES' 



HEAD ON THE STOMACH — AN UNPLEASANT EPISODE WOLF BAITING, 



AND HOW IT IS DONE, 280-29- 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE CATOTES' STRYCHNINE FEAST — CAPTURING A TIMBER WOLF — A FEW 



CORDS OF VICTIMS WHAT THE LAW CONSIDERS "INDIAN TAN " 



"finishing" THE NEW YORK MARKET A NEW YORK FARMER'S 



OPINION OF OUR GRAY WOLF — WESTWARD AGAIN — EPISODES IN OUR 

 JOURNEY — THE WILD HUNTRESS OF THE PLAINS — WAS OUR GUIDE A 

 MURDERER? — THE READER JOINS US IN A BUFFALO CHASE — THE 

 DYING AGONIES, 292-305 



CHAPTER XXI. 



"creasing" WILD HORSES — MUGGS DISAPPOINTED A FEAT FOR PIO- 



TION HORSE AND MONKEY HOOF WISDOM FOR TURFMEN PROS- 

 PECTIVE CLIMATIC CHANGES ON THE PLAINS — THE QUESTION OF 



SPONTANEOUS GENERATION WANTON SLAUGHTER OF BUFFALO 



AMOUNT OF ROBES AND MEAT ANNUALLY WASTED — A STRANGE 

 HABIT OF THE BISON — NUMEROUS BILLS — THE "SNEAK THIEF " OP 

 THE PLAINS, 306-317 



CHAPTER XXII. 



A IiIVB TOWN AND ITS GRAVE-YARD — HONEST ROMBEAUX IN TROUBLE 



JUDGE LYNCH HOLDS COURT — MARIE AND THE VINE-COVERED COT- 

 TAGE — THE TERRIBLE FLOODS — DEATH IN CAMP AND IN THE DUG- '' 

 OUT — WAS IT THE WATER WHICH DID IT ? — DISCOVERY OF A HUGE 

 FOSSIL — THE MOSASAURCS OP THE CRETACEOUS SEA — A GLIMPSE 

 OP THE REPTILIAN AGE — REMINISCENCES OP ALLIGATOR-SHOOTING — 

 THEY SUGGEST A THEORY, 318-329 



