HUNTING 1 (t 'IjSVr Vet! 4i fCopyrlRht. 1W5. by d. P. Putnam' iona. I'uldlnliftd undr arrangement with (1. P. Putnam's Pons, ftew lork and london.) XK September I determln i-d to dike a short trip after bluon, At that time I whh HtayliiK lu a cow cnuip a K'xxl tuitn; mllet up the river from tuj ruuih: there were then do cuttle south of me, where then; are now very umny thouHmul head, and (lie buffalo hud been plentiful In the country for a couple of winters pant, hut the Inst of the herds had been destroyed or driven out six mouths before, and there were only a few stniKBlera left It was one of my first huutliiK trips; previously 1 hud shot with the ritle very little, and that only nt deer or untclopc. 1 took as a companion one of toy best men, named Ten-Is (n brother of the Ferris ulready mentioned); we rode a couple of po nies, not very roou ones, and each carried his roll of blankets and a very mull store of food in a pack behind the saddle. Leaving the cow-camp early In the morn I iik. wc crossed the Little Mis souri and for the first ten miles thread ed our way through the narrow defiles and along the tortuous divides of a Kreat tract of Had Lands. Although It was fall uud the lights were cool the un was very bot In the middle of the day, and we JoKBed along at a slow pace, so as not to tire our ponies. Two or three black-tall deer were seen, aome distance off, and when we were a cou ple of hours on our journey, we cams across the fresh track of a bull buffalo. Ruffitlo wander a great distance, for, though they do not go fast, yet they may keep travelling, as tbey graza, all day long; and though tbla one bad evi dently passed but a few hours before, ws were not aura w would sea him His tracks wera easily followed as long aa he had kept to tba soft creek bottom, crossing and recrosslng tba narrow wet dltcb which wound Its way through It; but when he left tbla and turned up a winding coulle that branch ad out In every direction, his hoofs scarcely made any marks In the bard ground. We rode up the ravine, care fully examining the soil for Dearly balf an hour, however; Dually, aa wa passed tba mouth of a little side coulle, there was a plunge and crackle through the bushes at Its head, and a shabby-looking old hull bison galloped out of It and, without an Instant's hesitation, plunged over a steep bsnk Into a patch of rotten, broken ground which led around the base of a high butte. 80 quickly did he dlsnppear that we had not time to dismount and Are. Spur Ti YOUTH'S COMPANION it miii nut witi tni mi it, The Commits of the 52 Issues tor 1909 will include 50 Star Articles Hy Mm nnd Women of Distinc tion In Muiiy Vocations. 250 Capital Stories Of Character and Adventure. Including bin I inn Serials. 1000 Up-To-Dafe Notes On Current events. Ntitural History and Science. 2000 One-Minute Stories Hits of Humor And Miscellany Thn Wrrhly Mntilih Article. T Imolv r ilitorl.ils. 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From where we stood we could see nothing; so, getting our horses over the broken ground as fast as possible, we ran to the butte and rode round It, only to see the buffnlo come out of the broken land and clfrnb up the side of Wheeling, he charged mi with Urwertd Horn. another butte over a quarter of a mils off. In spite of his great weight and cumbersome, heavy-looking gait, ba climbed up the steep bluff with ease and even agility, and when be bad reached tba ridge stood and looked back at ua for a moment; while so do ing be bald bis bead blgb up, and at that distance bis great ahaggy mine and huge fore-quarter made him look like a lion, la another second ba again turned away and made off; and, being evidently very shy and accustomed to being harassed by hunters, most bars travelled a long distance before stop ping, for wa followed his trail for ome miles until It got on such bard, dry ground tbat his hoofs did not leave a scrape In tba aotl, and yet did not again catch so much as glimpse of him. It whs lata In the afternoon before wa aaw any game; then we made out In the middle of a large plain three black specks, which proved to be buf faloold bulls. Our horses bad come a good distance, nuder a bot sun, and aa they had bad no water except from the mud-bole In the morning they wera In uo couditlon for ruunlug. They were not very fast anyhow; so, though the ground was unfavorable, we made up our mluds to try to creep up to the buffalo. We left the ponies In a hollow balf a mile from the game, and started off on our bunds and knees, taking advantage of every sage brush as cover. After a while we hud to lie flat on our bodies and wriggle like snakes; and while doing this I blundered Into a bed of cactus, and filled my hauda with tha spines. After taking advantage of every hollow, hillock, or sage-brush, wa got within about a hundred and tweuty-Mve or fifty yards of where the three bulls were unconsciously feeding, and aa all between was bar ground I drew up and Bred. It waa the first time I aver shot at buffalo, and. oonfnsed by the bulk and ahsggy hair of the beast, I aimed too far back at one tbat was st finding nearly broadside on towards me. The bullet told on his body with a Intlil criu-k, the dust flying up from his hide; but It did not work him nny Immediate barm, or lu the least hinder him from mnUux off: nnd away went all three, with llielr tails up, dlsap penrl'.i? over a slight life lu the ground. Much disgusted, we trotted back to where the horses were picketed. Jumped on them, a good deal out of breath, aud rode after the flying game We thought that the wmmded oue might turn out and leave the others; mid so followed them, though they hud over n mile's start. For some sex en or eight miles we loped our Jaded horses along at a brisk pace, occasionally seeing the buffalo far ahead: and finally, when the sun had Just set, we saw that all throe had coma to a stand in a gentle hollow There was no cover anywhere near them; and. us a last desperate resort, wo concluded to try to run them on our worn out xulea. As we cantered toward them thev fiiied ua for a aecoud ami then turned round und made off, while with spurs and iiulrts we made the ponies put on a burst that enabled us to close lu with the wounded one Just about the time that the lesseulng twilight had almost ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS vanished; while the rim of the full, moon rose above the horizon. The, pony I waa on could barely bold Its own, after getting up within sixty or f seventy yards of the wounded bull: my companion, better mounted, forged : ahead, a little to one side. The bull saw him coming nnd swerved from his, course, and by cutting across I wair able to get u&nrly up to blm. The) ground over which we were running was fearful, being broken Into boles and ditches, separated by hillocks; In the dull light, and at the speed ' we were going, uo attempt could be made to guide the horses, and the latter, farced out by their exertions, flounder ed and pitched forward at every stride, j hardly keeping their legs. WDen up within twenty feet I fired my rifle, but the darkness, and especially the vio lent, labored motion of my pony, made me miss; I tried to get in closer, when suddenly up went the bull's tall, and wheeling, he charged me with lowered horns. My pony, frightened Into mo mentary activity, spun round and tossed up his bead; 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, hented 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 his 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 I 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. I made after him on foot, in hopeless and helpless wrath, ontll be got out of sight. So far the trip had certainly not been a success, although sufficiently varied as regards Its Incidents: we had been confined to moist biscuits for three days as our food; had been wet and cold at night, and sunburned till our fuces 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 I had shot badly. But a man who Is fond of sport, and yet is not naturally a good hunter, soon learns that If be wishes any success at all ha must both keep In memory and put in practice Anthony Trollope's famous precept: "It's dogged as does It" And If he keeps isgedly on In his course the odds are heavy that In the and tba longest bine will prove to have a turn ing. . Such was the case on this occa sion. Shortly ' after mid-day wa loft tha creek bottom, and iklrted a ridge of broken buttes. cut tip by gullies Md 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 their beads, and snuffed the air, turn ing their muzzles towards the head of the gully. Feeling sure that tbey bad melt some wild beast, either a bear or a buffalo, I slipped off my pony, and ran quickly but cautiously up along the valley. Refore I had gone a hun dred yards, I noticed In the soft soil at the bottom the round prints of a bison's hoofs; and Immediately afterwarjs got a 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 liotter for stalking. Hardly needing to bend down, I walked up be hind a small sharp-crested hillock, and peeping over, there lielow me, not fif ty yards off, was a great blsou bull. He was walking along, grazing as ho walked. His glossy fall coat was In tine trim, and shone In the rays of the sun: while bis pride of bearing showed him to I in the lusty vigor of his prime. As I rose above the crest of the hill, he held up bis head aud cocked his tall lu the air. Itefore he could go off, I put the bullet In liehlnd his shoulder. The wound was an almost Immediate ly fatal one. yet with surprising agility for so large and heavy an animal, he IMS .1,0. nf.r he cot.l.l 30 o ;uf ,1 mi.Yt In NTifitii tfic s'loiu'cfcr. bounded up the opposite side of the ravine, heedless of two more balls, both of which went Into his flank mi l ranged forwards, and disappeared over the rldfc-e at a lumbering gaiiop. tLe nx fliS 'I PASS, OREGON. NOVEBEMR blood pouring from bla mouth aud nostrils. We knew he could not go far aud trotted leisurely along on bis bloody trail; and In the next gully we found him stark (lend, lying almost on his buck, huving pitched over the side when he tried to go down it. Ills head was a remarkably fine one. even for u full buffalo. He was lying lu a verv bad position, nnd It was most te d oiis and tiresome work to cut It off nnd pa.-k it out. 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