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at the corral, going through one side and coming 

 out the other. By this time his bisonship was feel- 

 ing good, 



HIS SPIRITS WERE HIGH 



and he looked around for something else more dif- 

 ficult to tackle than the corral. On the siding of the 

 railroad track stood a locomotive and just about 

 this time the gathering steam lifted the safety 

 valve and escaped with a threatening roar. The 

 bull's eyes flashed; he pawed the dirt until the 

 cloud of alkali dust almost concealed the animal; 

 the next moment from out the cloud he came 

 thundering along straight for the challenging loco- 

 motive. He struck the locomotive and it is need- 

 less to say that the latter paid no attention to the 

 attack, although just about this moment the steam 

 ceased to escape from the safety valve and the 

 threatening roar which had attracted the buffalo 

 bull's attention ceased with its cause. Whether the 

 bison took this as a sign of surrender or whether 

 the loss of one of its horns with the impact of the 

 locomotive caused it to desist, no one knows, but 

 the railroad men, cowboys, half-breeds, and China- 

 men from their hiding places saw the old bull stand 

 back, shake his head, and mutter dire threats and 

 challenges to everything on earth, then turn and 

 walk off up the hill with the blood dripping from 

 the broken horn and a piece of rope or lariat 

 dangling from the good horn. 



Previous to this adventure One-Horned Ike had 

 been only 



