. St. Nicholas [serial] . 136 WILL CROCKER AND THE BUFFALOES. [December, WILL CROCKER AND THE BUFFALOES. (A Tme Story.) By F. Marshall YOU CAN T HUNT BUFFALO ON THAT HORSE ! SAID HIS FATHER. Will Crocker, whose adventure among adrove of buffaloes I am about to relate, was ayoung herdsman of the Lone Star State, and was, Iregret to say, as wild and uneducated a boy ascould be found in that far from classical region. But, though Will was uneducated, he was clever-witted. He was not the kind of boy who, as theFrench say, would tie a hungry dog to a treewith a string of sausages ; and, if
. St. Nicholas [serial] . 136 WILL CROCKER AND THE BUFFALOES. [December, WILL CROCKER AND THE BUFFALOES. (A Tme Story.) By F. Marshall YOU CAN T HUNT BUFFALO ON THAT HORSE ! SAID HIS FATHER. Will Crocker, whose adventure among adrove of buffaloes I am about to relate, was ayoung herdsman of the Lone Star State, and was, Iregret to say, as wild and uneducated a boy ascould be found in that far from classical region. But, though Will was uneducated, he was clever-witted. He was not the kind of boy who, as theFrench say, would tie a hungry dog to a treewith a string of sausages ; and, if he was ignorantof mathematics and geography, he was well in-formed on all matters relating to his fathers call-ing. He could manage a horse as well as the bestman on the ranch, and was a fair rifle-shot anda good drover. But Will had one great defect. He was ex-tremely obstinate, and his father had not enoughforce of character to check the fault. So, at seven-teen years of age, Will was of such a self-willeddisposition that to advise him in one direction wasalmost sure to make him take the opposite course. On one occasion, this obstinac
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