After A While I Looked Across, And There Was The Buffalo Still
Standing, And Both Faye And Lieutenant Alden Were Beckoning For Me To
Come To Them.
At first I could not understand what they wanted, and I
started to go over, but it finally dawned upon me that they were
actually waiting for me to come and kill that buffalo!
I saw no glory
in shooting a wounded animal, so I turned my horse back again, but had
not gone far before I heard the pistol shot.
Then I rode over to see the huge animal, and found Faye and Lieutenant
Alden in a state of great excitement. They said he was a magnificent
specimen - unusually large, and very black - what they call a blue
skin - with a splendid head and beard. I had been exposed to a bitterly
cold wind, without the warming exercise of riding, for over an hour,
and my hands were so cold and stiff that I could scarcely hold the
reins, so they jumped me up on the shoulders of the warm body, and I
buried my hands in the long fur on his neck. He fell on his wounded
side, and looked precisely as though he was asleep - -so much so that I
half expected him to spring up and resent the indignity he was being
subjected to.
Very soon after that Faye and I came on home, reaching the post about
seven o'clock. We had been in our saddles most of the time for twelve
hours, on a cold day, and were tired and stiff, and when Faye tried to
assist me from my horse I fell to the ground in a heap.
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