BUFFALOES 



flock. Thus they grazed slowly moving. Since 

 they were travelling away from us the men in 

 our party thought we would be able to pass 

 them without alarm. During the afternoon a 

 stray buffalo heifer was shot by one of our ad- 

 vance guards. We were about to stop on the 

 banks of a stream for supper when one of the 

 buffalo herds, a mile in the distance, reached a 

 swell on the undulating prairie. From this ele- 

 vation some of the more advanced cows noticed 

 us. The cows are always most watchful and 

 are, as a rule, the first to notice approaching 

 danger. Presently the bulls began to roar and 

 the cows to bellow. Then they took fright and 

 started in one mad rush toward us bringing all 

 the others with them as they passed through 

 their ranks. The herds gathered together into 

 one great mass and as they ran the bulls of the 

 smaller bands gradually worked themselves to 

 the outside. On and on they came in their 

 wild stampede ! Thousands upon thousands of 

 these big, awkward animals with their clumsy, 

 lumbering gallop and their great, shaggy manes 

 and heads lowered in most ferocious attitude, 

 snorting and bellowing amidst a tremendous 



