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thick buffalo hide, almost proof against 

 an arrow, and some fix a pair of bison's 

 horns on their heads, terroris causa. 

 On a sudden one party starts up and 

 sends a flight of arrows across the 

 valley, dropping under cover again at 

 once. The enemy replies with a similar 

 discharge. When no results follow upon 

 prolonged fighting of this sort, a few 

 braves on either side caper down into 

 the bottom of the valley and a skir- 

 mish ensues which ought to lead to 

 slaughter, but somehow this, too, often 

 ends harmlessly, and so the war goes 

 on for perhaps three weeks, until by 

 some fortunate accident somebody is 

 hit, and either the tribal honour is 

 satisfied or a fresh score is incurred, 

 to be settled on the next occasion. 



