Four-footed Americans and their kin . -ou imaginea more powerful or fierce beast ?. <? f ^ Mr The Bison. MONABCIIS IN EXILE 119 No, said Nat and Dodo, promptly; but Rap hesi-tated a little and answered shyly : — He must be very big and strong, yet somehow helooks rather stupid, too, as if he wasnt thinking aboutmuch of anything. But then, he added, as if fearingto be unjust, perhaps it is the glass eyes that makethe head look so sleepy. You are perfectly right, Rap ; stupidity was thechief fault, or rather misfortune, of the Buffalo. Theforemost Buffalo in the picture is an old male ; these
Four-footed Americans and their kin . -ou imaginea more powerful or fierce beast ?. <? f ^ Mr The Bison. MONABCIIS IN EXILE 119 No, said Nat and Dodo, promptly; but Rap hesi-tated a little and answered shyly : — He must be very big and strong, yet somehow helooks rather stupid, too, as if he wasnt thinking aboutmuch of anything. But then, he added, as if fearingto be unjust, perhaps it is the glass eyes that makethe head look so sleepy. You are perfectly right, Rap ; stupidity was thechief fault, or rather misfortune, of the Buffalo. Theforemost Buffalo in the picture is an old male ; thesemales were often six feet high at the shoulder, andmeasured ten feet from the tip of the nose to the rootof the tail, eight feet around the body just behind thefore legs, and weighed from fifteen to seventeen hundredpounds. Those we saw at the circus were born incaptivity, and were much smaller. The ponderoushead is shaggy, with a tufted crown between the curvedhorns that match the hoofs in blackness. The noseand lips are bare, but the chin is bearded. The shoul-ders and for
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