The Land Of Footprints By Stewart Edward White








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Taking advantage both of the scattered cover, and the half light
of the shadows we slipped forward as rapidly and - Page 291
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Taking Advantage Both Of The Scattered Cover, And The Half Light Of The Shadows We Slipped Forward As Rapidly And As Unobtrusively As We Could To The Edge Of The Grass Meadow.

Here we came to a stand eighty yards from the buffaloes.

They stood compactly like a herd of cattle, staring, tossing their heads, moving slightly, their wild eyes searching for us. I saw several good bulls, but always they moved where it was impossible to shoot without danger of getting the wrong beast. Finally my chance came; I planted a pair of Holland bullets in the shoulder of one of them.

The herd broke away to the right, sweeping past us at close range. My bull ran thirty yards with them, then went down stone dead. When we examined him we found the hole made by B.'s Winchester bullet; so that quite unintentionally and by accident I had fired at the same beast. This was lucky. The trophy, by hunter's law, of course, belonged to B.

Therefore F. and I alone followed on after the herd. It was now coming on dusk. Within a hundred yards we began to see scattered beasts. The formation of the herd had broken. Some had gone on in flight, while others in small scattered groups would stop to stare back, and would then move slowly on for a few paces before stopping again. Among these I made out a bull facing us about a hundred and twenty-five yards away, and managed to stagger him, but could not bring him down.

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