Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — No Place for Him. [ARTICLE]

No Place for Him.

Until ten years or more ago the Texas Pan Handle, through several months of each year, afforded pasturage for vast herds of bison, commonly known as the buffalo, an animal which, in its wild state, at least, has almost entirely vanished. On a certain occasion two gentlemen, prominent in Texas politics, were hunting in the buffalo region, and one of them, getting within range of a herd of the ruminants, brought down a large bull. Knife in hard, the hunter was approaching his quarry, when all at once it rose, bellowing and ready for business. Since the gun was empty, flight was the sportsman’s only recourse, and an instant later a wildeyed man was seen tearing away,with a furious brute closely following. Hunter number two, meanwhile, was watching the scene from a hilltop too far off to be of the slightest assistance to his companion. A tragic termination of the chase seemed inevitable, for the fleeing gentleman was a heavy weight, and already the space between pursuer and pursued began to diminish. Suddenly the fugitive was seen to strike off at an angle, and the breathless watcher heaved a sigh of relief when his friend’s objective point was found to be a cave but a few rods away. At the very entrance to this seeming place of safety, however, the fleeing man turned aside and dashed with such frantic speed across the plain that a marked gain was made upon his pursuer. But this could not last long, and finally, the fugitive’s strength utterly failing him, he fell completely exhausted, while the buffalo, faint from loss of blood, dropped at almost the Sijme instant, and within less than a rod of the prostrate man. Hunter number two now came up, and his first question was: “Why didn’t you run into the cave, Colonel? That would have shielded you from the buffalo." “Buffalo!” came the panting but contemptuous response; “why, General, there’s a bear*in that cave as big as two buffalo. ”