Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 154
e. At length, the hunters dashed among them andcommenced the work of destruction. Wills horse,the unreliable Bonanza, behaved well while amonghis companions ; but no sooner did they scatterthan he became unmanageable, and his riderheartily wished he had taken his fathers advice inrelation to the… … he leaped to the nearest buffalo. blew, fresh and invigorating, into the faces of thehorsemen. With spirits raised by that sense of ex-hilaration which comes of rapid motion, the riders convenient belt—to see a horseman charge a muz-zle-loader from the saddle. The report of the hunters rifles…
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