Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 140
this isthe wildest. Once among the buffalo, the hunter,unless long use has made him familiar with thesituation, dashes forward in utter recklessness andself-abandonment. He thinks of nothing, cares fornothing, but the game; his mind is stimulated tothe highest pitch, yet intensely concentrated on… … 120 The Buffalo report sounds faint amid the thunder of the buffalo;and when his wounded enemy leaps in vain furyupon him, his heart thrills with a feeling like thefierce delight of the battlefield. A practiced andskilful hunter, well mounted, will sometimes kill fiveor six cows in a single chase,…
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