ALONG FOUR-FOOTED TRAILS 



own life as he stepped backward and plunged 

 down the canon's side into "Devil's Gap"! 



We drove the howling, snarling coyotes off, 

 then rode to the edge of the Gap for a last look 

 at the lifeless form of the old bull lying seventy 

 feet below. Often he had been chased and 

 shot at by his bitterest enemies the white man 

 and the Indian. Often he had nobly fought 

 to protect the calves and weaker animals of his 

 flock from their natural enemies only to sur- 

 vive them all and die alone, maimed, starving 

 and weak. Pursued to the last, he was saved 

 by the friendly Gap from being literally torn to 

 pieces and devoured by his life-long murderous 

 pursuers. The buffalo wallow at the head of 

 " Devil's Gap " was never used after the death 

 of the grand old bull who made it. The mud 

 that had dropped in balls from the buffalo's tail 

 as he rolled in the wallow grew hard and dry in 

 the sun as did also the smooth depression. It 

 was known as the " Devil's Pool-Table," and 

 the hard balls of mud, composed of clay and 

 gravel that were often rolled about by the wind 

 on a stormy night, were known as the " Devil's 

 Pool-Balls." Often as the wind roared in the 



