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Excerpt from The English Sportsman in the Western Prairies
America, could tell me not a jot more than I knew myself as to what I should do or have to do. They said that there were buffaloes on the plains, Wildfowl in the lakes and rivers, and feathered game upon the lands, and that these could be killed by pulling triggers; but how they could be reached, and at what cost, never came within the scope of their information. In my thirst for intelligence of this sort I found a work, wherein the V author assured his readers that he had passed a delightful, romantic, and even graceful life with a tribe of Indians rejoicing in the name of Pawnees, and partaken with satisfaction of the delicacies of reeking livers torn raw from the bosoms of buffaloes; on reading which (with the exception of having no desire for the food alluded to) I had dreams of attaching myself to the Pawnee tribe, and of falling in love with the chief's daughter, and wedding her for a time by the religious and august cere mony Of tying a mule up to her father's hut. I say that I had dreams Of this, but not the slightest desire that those dreams should be fulfilled. How I read of these Pawnees, and what I found the Pawnees really to be, must remain to be told in other portions Of my narrative. Some gentlemen said they had killed the grizzly bear by stalking him; others cried that shooting buffalo was nothing better nor more wild than walking up to and Shooting oxen in a farmyard. Whether I found this bovine assertion to be correct or not my readers will ascertain when the buffalo or bison hunt comes before them, in its double View Of the still hunt or stalk, and the run on horseback. In short, I found many gentle men who, having, according to their account of the matter, done everything, had forgotten to take notice of the method, cost, and practice, the all in all as to future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
