. 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. nd on theinstant the grass seemed alive with feathered forms,popping into air like bobs in shuttlecock. Such afluttering and flying I have never seen since, whena boy, I ventured into a dove cote, and was knockedover by the rush of the alarmed inmates
. 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. nd on theinstant the grass seemed alive with feathered forms,popping into air like bobs in shuttlecock. Such afluttering and flying I have never seen since, whena boy, I ventured into a dove cote, and was knockedover by the rush of the alarmed inmates. From un-der our very feet, almost brushing our faces, thebeautiful pinnated grouse of the prairies left theircover, and us also. Every gun had gone off on the instant, and \vedoubt if one was raised an inch higher than it hap-pened to be when the covey started. The Professorafterward extracted some stray shot from the legs ofhis boots, and the setter, which was next to Muggs, gavea cry of pain for which there was evidently othercause than rheumatism, as was demonstrated by hisretirement to the rear, from which he refused tobudge until we all got into the wagon, and to whichhe invariably retreated whenever we got out. From the midst of the birds which were soaringaway, one was seen to rise suddenly a few feet above iifMT^ mmm o c Den 8 o. t ( ( << » t I THE SPOET CONTINUED. 69 his comrades, and then fall straight as a plummet,and head first, to earth. It had caught some strayshot from the bombardment—Muggs claimed fromhis gun, but this statement the setter, could he havespoken, would certainly have disputed. Semi-Colon brought in the game, which proved tobe a fine male, with whiskers and full plumage, whichmust have made sad havoc among the hearts of thehens, when the old fellow was on annual dress pa-rade in the spring. At that season of the year thecocks seek some knoll of the prairie, where the grass,has been burnt or cut oif, and strut up and down withruffled feat
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