DAN BEARD'S ANLMAL BOOK 



A CHARGING BUFFALO 

 The photograph that I did not show to my camp fire friends. 



to the camera and gave the operator a chance to 

 escape. They played battledore and shuttlecock 

 with. the camera and trampled the fragments deep 

 into the dusty earth. 



Now, while I was most anxious to get a photo- 

 graph of a charging buffalo I had no desire to ex- 

 periment with its butting power, so opening my 

 camera, I stood facing the enraged bison for some 

 time before I touched the button. I waited until 

 I thought it was so close that its image in the nega- 

 tive would overlap the plate. After touching the 

 button, I "hit the trail," but only the high places 

 on it, until I reached the wagon and clambered 

 aboard, where the bull did not follow me. 



