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Show r.o mistake about it; ne was tnere as lxrge as lif-e and quits "white, asd run-r.ii!g run-r.ii!g lilve a deer. There was ho. time 1o . much more than' take in the Fcene, but I gathered up the reins and woa after him, determined to bag that buffaJo cr 1. ill ray horse. Oh, what a race it was, mile after mile, and although all the band, with the exception of about a dozen, had split off and gone in different directions, direc-tions, the white animal, villi his bodyguard body-guard of about a dozen, kept about the some distance ahead. I coukl catch a pllinpse of him now and4hen, nnd ther was no doubt he was sn'ow white. Oct within sfliot. I could not for many miles. At last they begun to tire, and, although al-though my librae tired also, I had gocd hopes of coming up and getting a r.ho:. Alas! for such a chance. Of n sudden my horse lurched forward on his nose, eer.ding me over his head onto the priirie, and turning a somersault himself, him-self, missing me by only a few feet. II had put his foot into a badger hole, and had brought my hopes of a white robe to a sudden end. Forest and Str-cuui. THE ONLY WHITE BUFFALO. Seen and Chancel by Indians and Hunt-era, Hunt-era, But Never Caurcht. Durinc the summer of 1875 bands of Indiana returning from a hunt far out on t'he plains brought in; stories of having hav-ing seen at different times and in different dif-ferent places, and always in the center of a large herd, a white buffalo. They hud used their best horses in the effort to overtake it, to no purpose, never being be-ing able to got anywhere near the animal. ani-mal. At first we did not pay much attention to this story, but still it kept cropping up from different camps, and at last in the fall of 1873 I myself had a chance to verify the truth of the report. I had been sent on duty north along the Iiicd Deer river and was camped nura large bamd cf Blaekfee't, who were hunting south of that river. The buffaloes had moved north in vast numbers and the prairie was black with them. I had gone out one morning with a party of Blackfeet Ho see one of their hunts, and also to try and kill for myself. my-self. My horse wasi a good one, and much faster than any belonging to the Indian hunters. I had got detached from the party, becoming tired of the slaugl'tor, and must have been ait least 20 n;iics from camp, when I made for a small clump of timber not far off, intending in-tending to build a fire and roast a portion por-tion of buffalo meat I had on the saddle with me. As I approached the wood a band of abuut 100 animals burst out of t he brush and made off to the south, and j es, most certainly, in the middle of them was a white buffalo. Although they were a " 'rtei of a mile away, Hhere could be |