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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 19, 1910. 
yards of a fine cow. We both shot at her simul¬ 
taneously and saw her fall, and thought we had 
one at last, but she jumped up again and ran 
off to the main herd about 100 yards away, and 
there they all stood, about seventy-five of them. 
We kept firing until we were tired, and finally 
concluded we had one if not more, so we got 
up in sight and away they went, every one of 
them, our cow with the rest. We decided then 
that our guns were not powerful enough for 
buffalo and gave it up. The next thing in order 
was to find a hunters’ camp and try to get some 
meat to haul to Deadwood on shares. After con¬ 
siderable traveling around we found two hunters 
encamped and told them what we wanted. One 
of the hunters said if we would stay with them 
for a week and help to haul game into camp we 
could have all the meat we wanted and keep it 
ourselves; that he didn’t want us to haul on 
shares, and that he was going to Deadwood in 
that time and would go back with us, so we con¬ 
cluded to do that. One day one of the old 
hunters said: ‘Why didn’t you kill your own 
game?” We told him our experience, and he 
said he had a gun like the Springfield once and 
he could kill anything with it. He wanted to 
try it a shot. He shot at a black knot in a tree 
about 125 yards away, and the bullet came with¬ 
in an inch of the center of it. He said he could 
not see what was wrong with the gun, and then 
said: “Maybe you don’t hit ’em in the right 
place.” We told him we thought if we hit them 
at all we ought to kill them. “Oh, no,” Jie said. 
“Now, I’ll tell you where to hit ’em.” He drew 
out a rough sketch of a buffalo in the sand with 
a stick and pointed out the vital spot behind the 
shoulder and told us we must take as good aim 
as if we were shooting at the head of a chicken. 
This was new to us, and we thought now we 
could kill a buffalo if we had the chance. 
In a day or two we were to start for home 
and were very anxious to try our hands once 
more on a buffalo, but did not get an opportunity 
until the day came that all were to stay in camp 
and prepare for the start for home on the mor¬ 
row. In the morning I looked over the bank 
close to our tent and saw six buffalo not a mile 
away. I grabbed the gun and a handful of 
cartridges and struck out to head them off. I 
soon got ahead of them and awaited their com¬ 
ing. A fine cow took the lead, and as they were 
walking by me, at about 100 yards away, I took 
careful aim at the vital spot and pulled the trig¬ 
ger. Down she went a dead cow. I soon got 
another cartridge in the gun, and after they ran 
about 100 yards they stopped. I hastily took aim 
and fired at a two-year-old bull, and down he 
tumbled. Then the other four stampeded toward 
the hills, and not finding a way clear they turned 
and came almost directly toward me. I hid be¬ 
hind a big sage bush, and as they rushed by, 
about thirty yards away, I fired at the leader, a 
fine heifer three years old. After running about 
seventy-five yards she dropped dead and never 
kicked. By this time the young bull I had shot 
was up again, and I shot at him twice at 200 
yards’ distance and he fell for good. I was then 
going to turn loose on the remaining three, and 
found that I had no ammunition. I sneaked up 
to camp and told Robert if he wanted some meat 
to take the gun and some cartridges and go 
down the creek and shoot some buffalo. He 
went, and I with him to see him shoot. When 
he got up to about 125 yards he commenced to 
shoot at them. He killed two with three shots, 
and the fourth shot wounded the last buffalo, 
which struck off for the hills and disappeared. 
It was not yet noon. After dinner we skinned 
the buffalo, cut off the hams, humps and shoul¬ 
ders, took out their tongues and suet and took 
it all to camp. 
The next day we pulled out for home. 
John T. Lilly. 
The Boy Scout Movement. 
The tremendous success of the scout move¬ 
ment, which I inaugurated in 1905, is far beyond 
my fondest expectations. It is spreading all over 
the civilized world. Great Britain, Canada, New 
Zealand, Italy, Germany and even Russia have 
awakened to the importance and educational 
value of the Boy Scout idea. As a pioneer and 
the first in this field to devote my attention per¬ 
sistently for a long series of years to the one 
object of developing self-reliance, skill and man¬ 
hood in our boys, I long ago realized that we 
must accept the boys’ nature as it is, and in 
place of trying to change it to fit an artificial 
standard we must encourage it to develop in a 
natural way. Of late years the concentration of 
population in the cities, and the abnormal life 
which results, has robbed many of our boys of 
the high ideals, worthy ambitions and craftsman 
skill which were formerly characteristic of all 
native-born Americans. 
A boy is a natural advocate of the simple life, 
and the freer access he has to the three simple 
elements—fire, earth and water, the happier and 
more contented he is. Nevertheless, it took me 
almost thirty years of hard work for the boys 
of America to prepare the way and evolve the 
idea of forming the boys into an army of scouts 
and making the camp-fire the gathering place for 
the councils and frolics. This I did by forming 
a society of Boy Scouts which was the first of 
its kind inaugurated in this or any other coun¬ 
try. To each officer in the local club I gave as 
a title of honor the name of some famous Ameri¬ 
can scout, and each membe'r was called a scout. 
This society was founded five or six years ago 
and is still flourishing. The English Boy Scouts 
was started two years ago. 
But it must not be forgotten that the distin¬ 
guished English naturalist, Ernest Thompson 
Seton, being familiar with my work with the 
boys, became himself deeply interested in the 
American youth, and has and is now doing heroic 
work in that line. Enamored by the picturesque¬ 
ness of our American Indians and greatly admir¬ 
ing their many noble qualities as well as the 
poetry of their ceremonies and mysteries, Mr. 
Seton invented and founded a boys’ society which 
he called The Woodcraft Indians. He has fought 
valiantly to maintain the Indian name and idea, 
but the scout idea has appealed with greater 
force to the imagination of the boys, and has 
recently been reluctantly adopted by this distin¬ 
guished naturalist and artist in its modified form 
as inaugurated in England to take the place of 
the Indians. 
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 
K. C. B., K. C. V. O., the hero of Mafeking, who 
is so deservedly popular in England, organized 
the Boy Scout movement in that country. “Crib¬ 
bing,” as he himself humorously expressed it, 
the scout idea from Dan Beard and incorporat¬ 
ing many suggestions and ideas direct from 
Seton’s Woodcraft Indians; modifying and 
adapting the whole to fit the conditions prevail¬ 
ing in Great Britain. But neither the distin¬ 
guished general or the equally distinguished 
naturalist had aught to do with the originating 
of the scout idea, as both of them have publicly 
acknowledged, in addresses given on this subject 
in New York, that my boy scouts were first in 
the field. It must not be forgotten that with¬ 
out their aid in popularizing and spreading the 
scout movement it would have been confined to 
America where it originated. With these two 
great converts, however, the boy scouts idea is 
destined to sweep the civilized world, as it is 
in fact now doing. It is a crusade, a moral 
revival, a tardy recognition of the fact that the 
salvation of the civilized world depends upon the 
boys of the world. An independent, manly, self- 
reliant, resourceful, quick-witted boy must neces¬ 
sarily make the best and most useful type of 
man, while the anemic, pale, cigarette-smoking 
lad can but make a degenerate man. 
The most casual observer must know that ad¬ 
venture, daring and skill appeal very forcibly to 
the juvenile mind and heart, and it is evident 
that it is absolutely necessary to furnish our 
youths with a healthy outlet for their surplus 
energy. This the scout movement supplies. Dr. 
Elliott, of Harvard, recently told the students 
that if they wanted to make education effective 
they must do things themselves, and this is the 
idea encouraged and taught by the Boy Scout 
leaders. 
Honors are given for a practical and essential 
knowledge of nature, of the birds, beasts and 
fishes, the stars, the trees and forests, and for 
an outdoor education which will make the boys 
capable of taking care of themselves under all 
conditions. A very important branch of knowl¬ 
edge, which has been added to the scout move¬ 
ment by General Baden-Powell, is the first aid 
to the injured. This has proved of very practi¬ 
cal use upon many occasions, and the advantage 
of training has been emphasized more than once 
when boy scouts have rendered immediate assist¬ 
ance in times of railroad accidents where even 
the officials and doctors were for the time help¬ 
less ; in fact, there seems to be nothing in the 
line of usefulness which these young heroes may 
not attempt with more or less success. Another 
one of Baden-Powell’s ideas is that requiring 
each scout to do some good act each day. With 
this’ in mind the young knight errants go about 
seeking adventure with the long ends of his 
necktie flapping in his face to remind them that 
a good deed is yet unaccomplished. When the 
opportunity comes to help man, bird or beast, he 
is quick to perceive it and quick to act. It is 
considered a greater honor to do some good, 
generous or noble act for the benefit of women 
or children than for any other object, and be 
the act one of ordinary service or one requiring 
real heroism, when it is accomplished the ends 
of the flapping necktie are tucked away as a 
sign of content for a good deed done, and with 
a broad smile of satisfaction in the knowledge 
of duty accomplished the scout goes on his way 
rejoicing. 
Cheerfulness is one of the characteristics of 
the boy scout. They have a smile ready for all 
occasions. They are taught to be healthy, nor¬ 
mal, useful, but also boyish, fun-loving, smiling 
lads. 
Any mother, however high or low her social 
