. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. cided whether to springor not. We felt that the dark maniac had beenhovering around us, and that this meeting was notaltogether accidental. Her disordered brain was yetundecided in which direction vengeance lay, and, likea tigress, she was watching an
. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. cided whether to springor not. We felt that the dark maniac had beenhovering around us, and that this meeting was notaltogether accidental. Her disordered brain was yetundecided in which direction vengeance lay, and, likea tigress, she was watching and waiting. Our policy developed, on the instant, into a non-com-mittal and a safe one. As she wheeled her horse, andleft us without a word, we remarked to our guide thatcrazy folks were often suspicious of their best friends. Thats so, he replied, and rode off to urge on thewagons. We shrank from the idea of living with amurderer, and acquitted him of the crime on the spot. We are moving out over the grand, illimitableplain again. Reader, ride with us awhile by the sideof that big bison bull, which we have just stirred upfrom his noonday dream. You see his broad nostrils,reddish just under the dark skin at the end, andsensitive as the nose of a pointer. They have caughtthe air which we tainted, while passing for a momentacross the mm ?»? I , III, ii|i\l 11^ THE EEADEK AND I IN CHASE. 303 He has seen nothing, and we are still invisible, buthe does not stop to look behind. Escape for yourlife! has been as plainly telegraphed from nose tobrain, as it could be by eyes or mouth. We were sofar off and well hidden then, that those active tell-tales, sound and sight, could play no part in thisalarm. But the sentinel nerves of smell fled backfrom their post on the frontier, with the cry ofMan ! and the beast of the wilderness thinks onlyof flight. Powerful for defense against the rest ofthe animal creation, he is coward on the instant be-fore its king. Away he goes, right into
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