. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. Buffalo «8S where, indeed, he tould smell the refreshment that he needed; but it was effectively barricaded from him. Again he rubbed and leaned against his mother's neck in mute appeal; again she mutely said, " Don't bother me," and flung him afar with a swing of her massive woolly jowl. Then did that small calf rise to the emergency in a way that filled me with glee; for, standing just beyond the sweep of mother's impatient horns, he backed and charged
. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. Buffalo «8S where, indeed, he tould smell the refreshment that he needed; but it was effectively barricaded from him. Again he rubbed and leaned against his mother's neck in mute appeal; again she mutely said, " Don't bother me," and flung him afar with a swing of her massive woolly jowl. Then did that small calf rise to the emergency in a way that filled me with glee; for, standing just beyond the sweep of mother's impatient horns, he backed and charged agam and again, butting and pounding, with his tiny budding " nubbins of horns, against her flank—her only tender spot—until she could stand it no longer and leaped to her feet. Now, of course, the object he had in view was easily within his reach; and springing into place, but well forward out of reach of her first im- patient but half-hearted kick, he tugged away. The mother's love was stirred in response, and her forgiveness of him was complete—it arrived, indeed, before his punishment, so that it came not at all. Another glimpse of the family life (or at least, the Indian opinion of it) is afforded by the following from the pen of C. E. Denny. Referring to the rare and beautiful "Beaver robe" already mentioned, he says:" "The robe was nearly always of a cow, very fine snd very light. Many explanations were given by the hunters for this peculiar coat, and the right one was no doubt that given by Montana Indians—that it was caused by the constant licking of many animals in tht herd, to which some motherless calf belonged, it having become the pet of the band, the animals testifying their liking in that ; In all this pastoral scene, there is a flock of small black cow-^ birds, "cowbirds" or "buffalo-birds" they are called. They haunt the Buffalo as negroes do a Mississippi raft-housc, •• Forest and Stream
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