THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, Thursday, August 5, 1909 2 HUNTING me THEODORE ROOSEVELT UFTALO BY fCopyright, 1585, by G. P. Putnam's Sona. | Published under arrangement with G. P, Putnam's Sons, New York and London.) NE September I determin | ed to take a short trip] after bison. At that time| 1 was staying in a cow Re camp a good many miles] | up the river from m)| ranch; there were then] no cattle south of me, where there] are now very many thousand head and the buffalo had been plentiful in the country for a couple of winters past, but the last of the herds had been destroyed or driven out six months before, and there were only a few stragglers left. It was one of my first hunting trips; previously I had shot with the rifle very little, and that only at deer or antelope, 1 took as a companion one of my best men, named Ferris (a brother of the Ferris already mentioned); we rode a couple of po- nies, not very gooa ones, and each carried his roll of blankets and a very small wre of food in a pack behind the saddle Leaving Bl¢ the Mis s thread narrow deflles divides of Although the cow-camp early In we Little irst ten n rh the t rtuous nds, a it \ights were ¢ the in the middle of the ged along at a s it to ) “tire our ponies. Two 8OIme 001 sun w day, anc pace, so a or three bla distance , and when we were a cou- ple of hours on our journey, we came across the fresh track of ¢ iil buffa Buffalo wander a great distance, though they may keep travalll day long: and thot dently p: 18sed we were not su Hls long as he bottor 1, or narrow wet d through it turned ug ed 1S very Ow k-tall deer were seen, off FMICKS I ou Wheeling, he charged me with lowered | horns. another butte over a quarter of a mile | off. In spite of his great weight and cumbersome, heavy-Jooking galt, he | climbed up the steep bluff with ease and even agility, and when he had reached the ridge stood and looked back at us for a moment; while so do ing be held his head high up, and at that distance his great shaggy wane and huge forequarter made him look like a lion, In another second he again turned away and made off; and, being evidently very shy and accustomed to being harassed by hunters, must have travelled a long distance before stop ping, for we followed his trail for some miles until it got on such hard, dry ground that his hoofs did not leave © & scrape In the soll, and yet dia | Mon bot a again eatch so much as a glimpse him, before then we made out It was late in the afternoon we saw any game; | In the middle of a large plain three black specks, which proved to be buf- falo—old bulls. Our horses had come a good distance, under a hot sun, and as they had had no water except from | the mud-hole in the morning they | were In no condition for running They were not very fast anyhow; so, though the ground was unfavorable, we made up our minds to try to creep up to the buffalo. We left the ponles | in a hollow half a mile from the game, and started off on our hands and knees, taking advantage of every sage- brush as cover. After a while we had to lle flat on our bodles and wriggle like snakes; and while doing this I blundered into a bed of cactus, and lled my hands with the splines, After taking advantage of every hollow, hillock, or sage-brush, we got within about a hundred and twenty-five or fifty yards of the three bulls were unconsciously feeding, and as all between was bare ground I drew up ad fired. It was the first time I ever ind, confused by halr of the beast ick at one that ¥ broadside on towar ullet told on his body with k, the dust fis ut it did not work him any m, or in the least hinder king off; and went talls slight rise where Or an was ving up from away up, thelr pearing a ground. vv k to 1, we trotted bac were plcketed, a good deal out of ying game inded one the others; 101808 ftar the 1 the wot nd leave for a second and then # lone io labored 1 1 tried up lent, me miss; to get lo closer, when bull's tall, and he charged me with lowered frightened into mo spun round and suddenly went the wheeling, horns. My pony, mentary activity, tossed up his head; 1 was holding the rifle In both hands, and the pony's head, striking it, knocked it violently against my forehead, cutting quite a gash, from which, heated as 1 was, the blood poured into my eyes, Mean while the buffalo, passing me, charged my companion, and followed him as he made off, and, as the ground was very bad, for some little distance ais lowered head was unpleasantly near the tired pony's tall, 1 tried to run in on him again, but my pony stopped short, dead beat; and by no spurring could 1 force him out of a slow trot My companion jumped off and took a couple of shots at the buffalo, which missed In the dim moonlight; and to our unutterable chagrin the wounded bull labored off and vanished In the darkness. 1 made after him on foot, in hopeless and helpless wrath, until he got out of wight, So far the trip had certainly not been 1A success, although sufficiently varied as regards its Incidents; we bad been confined to moist biscuits for three | days as our food; had been wet and | cold at night, and sunburned till our | faces peeled In the day. were hungry | and tired, and had met with bad weath. er, and all kinds of accidents; In ad- dition to which 1 had shot badly. Ba* a man who Is fond of sport, and yet Is | not naturally a good hunter, soon learns that If he wishes any success at all he | must both keep In memory and put in | practice Anthony Trollope’'s famous precept: “It's dogged as does It” And if he keeps doggedly on In his course the odds are heavy that in the end the longest lane will prove to have a turn. na Such was the case on this occa: Shortly after mid-day we left the | graduated 2200 students and has edu- | eroek bottom, and skirted a ridge of broken buttes, cut up by gullles and] winding ravines, In whose bottoms! grew bunch grass. While passing ¢ near | the mouth, and to leeward of one of | these ravines, both ponies threw up thelr heads, and snuffed the alr, turn-| Ing their muzzles towards the head of the gully, Feeling sure that they had smelt sowe wild beast, either a bear or a buffaly, I slipped off my pony, and ran quickly but cautiously up along the valley. Before 1 had gone a hun-| dred yards, I noticed In the soft soll at the bottom the round prints of a bison’s hoofs; and Immediately afterwards got an glimpse of the animal himself, as he fed slowly up the course of the ravine, some distance ahead of me. The wind was Just right, and no ground could! have been better for stalking. Hardly | needing to bend down, 1 walked up be | hind a small sharp-crested hillock, and peeping over, there below me, not fif- ty yards off, was a great bison bull He was walking along, grazing as he walked, His glossy fall coat was In fine trim, and shone in the rays of the | sun; while his pride of bearing showed | him to be In the lusty vigor of his prime, As 1 rose above the crest of the hill, he held up his head and cocked his tail in the alr, Before he could go off, I put the bullet in behind his shoulder, The wound was an almost immediate ly fatal one, yet with surprising agility for so large and heavy an animal, he , ho mat mt aris 8 food be And the sry toll 1 had ged to g n order to pro cure the head, made n feel all the prouder of it was at last In my DOS|eRK INT NEXT WEEK: “Hunt- ing The Elk” A New Examining, may Dre thr 0 ’ it wher pasted an registration tate board of The recent Leg slature al to provide for state nurses, to establish a ¢ amciners in connection therewith provide penalties for the violation of certain provisions regarding such reg's tration, Governor Stuart recently ap pointed the follow ng to constitute the board: Dr. William ! ghee, 1703 south Broad Philadelphia; Dr. Albert Engles, Blackburn, 3073 Powelton Ave Philadelphia: Dr. Alice M. 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