January, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
47 
PLANTS AS GUIDES 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 44) 
The poet here conveys the impression 
that the plant is delicate, although the 
pilot plant is really a robust, coarse weed. 
Some writers have cast doubt on the re- 
liability of the pilot plant as an indicator. 
The close observations of the writer on 
many hundreds of young plants on our 
western prairies verify the fact of its 
reliability as a guide. It is interesting 
to note that the term “shadowless forests 
of Australia” has its origin in the fact 
that the leaves of the eucalyptus and 
acacia trees, the commonest members of 
the Australian forest flora, turn their 
edges to the sun at midday; hence little 
shadow is cast at that time. 
Probably there are other plants in ad- 
dition to the ones here described, which 
may be found useful as compass plants. 
Certainly this knowledge may sometimes 
become exceedingly valuable. Although 
exceptions to the instances cited are com- 
mon, a combination of observations on 
plant growth should soon enable one to 
get his bearings. 
WHEN BUFFALO RAN 
W HEN Buffalo Ran, by George 
Bird Grinnell, has recently been 
brought out by the Yale Uni- 
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The book tells about the West of the 
olden time, when there were buffalo and 
real Indians. It is an unusual story of 
Indian life and is told in a remarkably 
interesting way. 
A plains Indian recounts the main 
incidents of his life — those things most 
firmly fixed in his memory — the most 
startling events that happened to him 
from his first recollections until the 
time of his marriage. It is a peculiar- 
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how he began to learn the lessons of 
the tribal life, how his ambitions were 
stimulated, how he strove to imitate 
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practise the virtues of his people. He 
describes the every day incidents of the 
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how as a boy he began to run buffalo, 
at first killing little calves and then 
big buffalo, of his first journey to war 
and its lessons and the accomplish- 
ments which came with later trips. 
We may let the lad tell about his two 
first chases for buffalo. Hoping to kill 
his first calf, he was riding out to the 
surround on a swift buffalo horse that 
his uncle had loaned him. 
“At length the soldiers gave the word 
for the charge and we all rushed toward 
the buffalo. They turned to run and a 
great deal of dust rose in the air. That 
day there were many men on fast 
horses, but my uncle’s horse was faster 
than all; and because I was little and 
light he ran through the big buffalo 
and was soon close to the calves. When 
he was running through the buffalo I 
was frightened, for they seemed so big 
and they crowded so on each other and 
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