ANIMAL MURDER. 12Q 
dust,” quite too insignificant to turn aside for. 
Even whole trains of cars are sometimes obliged 
to wait for them to pass over the track ; and until 
there were strict laws forbidding it, the people, 
who, at the Centennial, were so anxious to know 
if Mrs. Maxwell killed that buffalo, used to shoot 
the noble beasts from the car windows. Did 
you suggest that I am mistaken about the per- 
sons who committed those atrocities ? Possibly 
I am. Of course, I cannot prove I am not. I 
only know I saw the dead creatures lying at 
short distances from the track, every little way, 
the first time I went over the Kansas Pacific 
road, and that I saw one man fire a pistol at a 
live one, from the window of the car I was in. 
Wasn’t I glad that he missed it ! 
If the people who, at the Centennial, were so 
anxious about the answer to the buffalo question, 
were not the ones who shot them, simply for the 
sake of saying they had done so, it is safe to 
presume they were killed by people very like 
them. 
There is one thing quite certain — both parties 
had one idea in common : that to kill so big a 
thing was a very notable feat! But you say, 
“ You will see how absurd it is, even to suppose 
the two parties the same, when you remember 
many of those inquisitive Centennial people were 
women.” 
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