We'll scout all along this timber.

What we want is a young cow.

Their meat is not tough." They rode through the timber for about two hours, when Ned caught sight of moving figures on the far side of a thicket.

He could just see the backs of large animals, and he knew that there were their buffalo.

He pointed them out to the Panther, who nodded.
"We'll ride 'roun' the thicket as gently as possible," he said, "an' then open fire.