Show THRILLING BUFFALO YARN How the Old Timer Lied About What He Didnt lIe Bangor Commercial When I first struck the short grass country old John was there He got me cornered one day and was so ticlled to get a fresh victim that he hardly stopped even to get a drink until he had stuffed me so full that I was partially paralyzed for a month afterward He gave me to understand un-derstand that for years before he came to Kansas he was one of the most dreaded desperadoes and Indian killers that ever reamed through the Rocky mountains I learntd afterward that he wouldnt fight a cat and actually I trembled with fear whenever his I hatchetfaced wife turnedloose on him with her tongue but when I first met j him his bloodthirsty talk fairly made j I my blOod run cold i He informed me that he was known I far and wide through the mountains as Tiger Jack the terror of the Rock I ies But I was going to speak of his I buffalo story I asked him one day just to bring him out if he ever got j into any tight places when he was hunting buffalo Oh Ive been in places that I suppose most fellers would call ticklish he replied but never anyplace any-place that rattled Tiger Jack but once and that time I own I was worried I was huntin buffalo down the Medicine valley in 70 The country was just alive with the critters and I was knocking em right and left when all at once somethin started a stampede and three or four million buffalo came rushin down the valley just makin the ground shake as they came I seen at once that I would have to get out of there or be run over but my pony was all fagged out and the herd kept gaining on him at every jump I saw that them buffalo was goin to run that popy down and that somethin had to be done and done quick Well sir I seen that there was just one thing to do1 waited till the head buffalo was right on my ponys flank and then I made a jump on that buffalos hump Then sir I just went jumpin from the back of one buffalo to another and shootin as I wentthought maybe you know that I could scatter the herd and get a chance to get down on the ground Well sir when I struck the rear of that stampede I was only a mile from home I went out the next day and measured the distance from where I jumped and found I had traveled on the backs of buffalo for six miles and a quarter Ill tell you honestly I think it was a little the closest shave I ever had |