Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1903 — Buffalo Had to Climb. [ARTICLE]

Buffalo Had to Climb.

A near relation of the late Baron Munchausen on the maternal aide, lineally descended from Ananias and Sapphlra, was telling a party of friends about treeing a bull buffalo In one of the trees of California. “That story lacks likelihood,” remarked the man who knows everything, like so many other men; “the buffalo belongs to the ruminant family, has four or five stomachs and walks on hoofs. It has no claws at all and could no more climb a free than a Jersey cow.”' “As a general proposition you are right," said the story-teller, with perfectly unruffled mien, according to the New York Times. “But this case was quite exceptional. We were after the buffalo with four of the most vicious dogs that I ever knew. One was a boar hound, one a great Dane, one a psovie, or wolf hound, and the dther a registered bulldog, with Jaws like wrought Iron, Well, they brought the buffalo to bay at the foot of a big tree and pressed him so blamed hard that he Just had to climb. That was his only* salvation.”