The colonel, who had loaded up and was waiting for his attendant to return, was very much astonished to see a buffalo rush out of the thicket with a blanket twisted about his horns.
The animal evidently did not notice him, and so he raised his rifle and shot him dead without the slightest trouble.
THE NATIVE’S TRICK.
As soon as the buffalo was quite dead, the native appeared from the thicket and immediately began to boast of the share he had had in killing the animal.
It is quite certain that had he not succeeded in his very clever trick the buffalo would either have killed him or would have got away safely.
A week or two after this the Colonel was invited by an officer in the English army, named Major Alden, to go wild boar-hunting with him.
The Colonel was quite willing, and so they set out together for the river, some three miles away, where they expected to find a wild boar or two. A crowd of natives preceded them, beating up the bushes to drive out the boars.
Our hunters were both well mounted and armed with long spears instead of guns. The Major, who wore an undress uniform, carried also a short sword.
They had scarcely reached the river-bank when they saw a boar rush out of some underbrush and make rapidly for the river.