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Show BUFFALO HAD TO CLIMB. Logic of Situation Wouldn't Permit: Any Other Movement. A near relation of tho lato Baron Munchausen on tho matornal side, lineally lin-eally descended from Ananias and Sapphlra, was telling a party of friends about treeing a bull buffalo In one of tho trees of California. "That story lacks likelihood," remarked re-marked tho man who knows ovcry- thing, like so many other mon; "tho I buffalo belongs to tho ruminant family. I has four or flvo stomachs and walks t on hoofs. It has no claws at all and could no moro climb a treo than a-Jersoy a-Jersoy cow." "As a general proposition you irs right," said tho story-tellor, with perfectly per-fectly unruffled mien. "But this case-was case-was qulto exceptional. Wo wero after tho bufTalo with four of tho most vicious dogs that I ever knew. Ono-was Ono-was a boar hound, ono a great danc, ono a psovie, or wolf hound, and the-other the-other a registered bulldog, with Jaws like wrought Iron. Well, they brought tho buffalo to bay at tho foot of a big tree and pressed him so blamed hard that ho just had to climb. That was -W his only salvation." 7 |