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has not fled when the demonstration has gone thus 

 far 



THE BULL DROLLS" HIS TAIL, 



that is, holds it in a stiff curve, then it lowers its 

 head and comes thundering at you like an auto- 

 mobile. If the buffalo ever hits you the re- 

 sults will be just as bad and redress as unattain- 

 able as it is when you are struck by an automobile. 

 Once when the brawny and genial Howard 

 Eaton of Wolf Ranch was 



ROPING WILD BUFFALO CALVES 



on the plains, he secured a fine young bull. Grip- 

 ping the end of his "lass rope" tightly, Eaton 

 ascended a little mound to scan the horizon in an 

 effort to locate his companions. With one hand 

 shading his eyes and the other holding fast to the 

 lariat, he did not notice that the rope had slackened 

 until all of a sudden he woke up to find himself 

 on his back gasping for wind and staring at the sky 

 over head, and this was caused by a blow from only 

 a calf. 



A few months before I visited the Pablo Allard 

 herd, a photographer with a very large camera and 

 tripod attempted to get a picture of the last of the 

 bison, but he did not succeed. The photographer 

 reached Selish in a very excited state of mind and 

 a somewhat exhausted state of the body. For- 

 tunately for him, his big camera was so conspicu- 

 ous that the animals devoted their entire attention 



