 | Josiah Gregg - 1850 - 332 pages
...stagger, and in a few moments expires : but if provoked, he might run for miles before he would fail. I have seen a party of hunters around a wounded and...line. I have never heard of a serious accident of the kind ; yet some frightful though amusing in cidents have occurred in such cases. The buffalo never... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - 1844 - 346 pages
...' have the wind' of them, and crawls slowly and closely upon the ground, until within gun-shot. If he bring down the first, the others will perhaps retire...line. I have never heard of a .serious accident of the kind ; yet some frightful though amusing in cidents have occurred in such cases. The buffalo never... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - 1856 - 664 pages
...' have the wind' of them, and crawls slowly and closely upon the ground, until within gun-shot. If he bring down the first, the others will perhaps retire...line. I have never heard of a serious accident of the kind ; yet some frightful though amusing in cidents have occurred in such cases. The buffalo never... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 894 pages
...one spot, as distinguished from trolling. Still-Hunter. A stalker of game. Western. The ttill-hunter must needs be upon his guard ; for the wounded buffalo...make battle upon the too near approach of his enemy. — Gregg, Com. of frairies, Vol. II. p. 219. Still Hunting. Walking noiselessly through the woods,... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 886 pages
...a deep line in one spot, as distinguished from trolling. Still-Hunter. A stalker of game. Western. prone to make battle upon the too near approach of his enemy. — Gregg, Com. of The ttilt-hunter must needs be upon his guard; for the wounded buffalo is frairiei,... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 998 pages
...stalker of game. Western. The ttill-hunter must needs be upon his guard ; for the wounded buffalo 19 prone to make battle upon the too near approach of his enemy. — Gregg, Com. of Prairies, Vol. II. p. 219. Still-Hunting. Walking noiselessly through the woods,... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1889 - 882 pages
...spot, as distinguished from trolling. Still-Hunter. A stalker of game. Western. The still-hunter mast needs be upon his guard; for the wounded buffalo is...make battle upon the too near approach of his enemy. — Gregg, Com. of Prairies, Vol. II. p. 219. Still-Hunting. Walking noiselessly through the woods,... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1905 - 380 pages
...retire a little, when he may sometimes approach behind the fallen buffalo, and shoot several others. flinch — but will curl his tail and step about as...mind, however, his attacks are easily shunned. If he makes a lunge, the pedestrian hunter has only to wheel abruptly to one side; for the animal is apt... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1905 - 384 pages
...' have the wind ' of them, and crawls slowly and closely upon the ground, until within gun-shot. If [219] he bring down the first, the others will perhaps...mind, however, his attacks are easily shunned. If he makes a lunge, the pedestrian hunter has only to wheel abruptly to one side; for the animal is apt... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1905 - 380 pages
...sometimes approach behind the fallen buffalo, and shoot several others. flinch — but will curl his tafl and step about as though he neither felt nor feared...mind, however, his attacks are easily shunned. If he makes a lunge, the pedestrian hunter has only to wheel abruptly to one side; for the animal is apt... | |
| |
... and step about as though he neither felt nor feared anything ! If left undisturbed, however, he begins to stagger, and in a few moments expires : but if provoked, he might run for miles before he would fall. I have seen a party of hunters around a... 
