These
Hunts Exact The Very Best Of Riding And A Fast Horse, For Coyotes Are
Very Swift, And So Are Jack-Rabbits, Too, And One Look At A Greyhound
Will Tell Anyone That He Can Run - And About Twice As Fast As The
Big-Eared Foxhounds In The East.
But I started to write you about
something quite different from all this - to tell you of a really grand
hunt I have been on - a splendid chase after buffalo!
A week or so ago it was decided that a party of enlisted men should be
sent out to get buffalo meat for Thanksgiving dinner for
everybody - officers and enlisted men - and that Lieutenant Baldwin, who
is an experienced hunter, should command the detail. You can imagine
how proud and delighted I was when asked to go with them. Lieutenant
Baldwin saying that the hunt would be worth seeing, and well repay one
for the fatigue of the hard ride.
So, one morning after an early breakfast, the horses were led up from
the stables, each one having on a strong halter, and a coiled picket
rope with an iron pin fastened to the saddle. These were carried so
that if it should be found necessary to secure the horses on the
plains, they could be picketed out. The bachelors' set of quarters is
next to ours, so we all got ready together, and I must say that the
deliberate way in which each girth was examined, bridles fixed, rifles
fastened to saddles, and other things done, was most exasperating.
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