. 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. > s s>z> oXmS o >T3 WO cPI 50 Oe« PIr,H < PI. / ?^I*,-, CUPID AND CLAMS. 4l teered as local reporter. Many of the items hegathered are entered in our log-book in rhyme, andto these pages some of them are transferred verba-tim. In wooing
. 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. > s s>z> oXmS o >T3 WO cPI 50 Oe« PIr,H < PI. / ?^I*,-, CUPID AND CLAMS. 4l teered as local reporter. Many of the items hegathered are entered in our log-book in rhyme, andto these pages some of them are transferred verba-tim. In wooing the muses, our alderman certainlyacted out of character. The ideal poet is thin in-stead of obese, and he is a reckless innovator wholays claim to any measure of the divine afflatuswithout possessing either a pale face, thin form, ora garret. As to what drove a JNew York alderman to thesociety of buffaloes, we had but one explanation,and that was Sachems own. We knew that he dis-liked women in every form, Sorosis and Anti-Sorosis,bitter and sweet alike. According to his statement,made to us in good faith, and which I chronicle inthe same, Cupid had once essayed to drive a dartinto Sachems heart, but, in doing so, the barb alsostruck and wounded his liver. As his love increased,his health failed. His liver became affected in thesame ratio as his heart. This was touching ouralderman in a tender sp
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