Then I caught a distant view of a herd of quadrupeds, rushing up and down the swells--animals, which would have still remained unknown and undescribed, had it not been for a most felicitous accident! One, and he a noble specimen of the whole! was running a little apart from the rest.

The herd made an inclination in my direction, in which the solitary animal coincided, and this brought him within fifty yards of the spot where I stood.

I profited by the opportunity, and by the aid of steel and taper, I wrote his description on the spot.

I would have given a thousand dollars, Ellen, for a single shot from the rifle of one of the boys!" "You carry a pistol, Doctor, why didn't you use it ?" said the half inattentive girl, anxiously examining the prairie, but still lingering where she stood, quite willing to be detained.
"Ay, but it carries nothing but the most minute particles of lead, adapted to the destruction of the larger insects and reptiles.

No, I did better than to attempt waging a war, in which I could not be the victor.