XI. THE STEAM MAN ON A BUFFALO HUNT.
WITH A WILD of alarm, the three and over the prairie, with the steam man in pursuit.
The boy had taken the to a with him. When he saw them in this manner, the came to him at once that he would shoot one of them, and take a to his friends for their supper.
It would to a for him, and he would be of its performance than he was of the of the steam man.
The lumbering, of the was not a very one, and the boy himself them without difficulty. They did not know to separate, but close together, sometimes and against each other in their to escape.
But, after the had some time, one of the animals to in the rear, and Johnny his attention toward him, as he would be the most easy to secure.
This was a that was lame, which for his of gait. Frightened as he was, it was not that terror which had the Indians when they the steam man so close at their heels. The was one of those that if closely pressed would turn and the monster. He was not one to continue a flight, no who or what was his pursuer.
The boy was not aware of this in the animal, did he of anything like resistance.
So he toward him, until twenty yards, when he let go of his rod, and up the him. A from this, he supposed, would kill any animal, large, no at what of his he aimed.
So to his feet, and himself as well as he could, he for the of the animal. The itself in his flank, and so his speed, that the next moment the boy himself him.
The this took place, the his head, and without warning, full at the steam man.
The boy saw the danger, but too late to it off. His the of the with such that he was a from the ground, the like the of a pistol.
Fortunately the did not the machine, although the boy to be and killed by the buffalo.
The latter, when he had his plunge, for another, which was sure to be if as as the first. The boy his presence of mind to let on full steam, and the away at an rate, over the ground so that the of were and in every direction, so that now, from being the pursuer, he had the pursued. The tables were with a vengeance!
It was only by good that Brainerd destruction. The wonder was that the steam man was not so as to be unable to travel, in which case the would have left little of him.
As it was, the of the boy was such as he forget. When he his he saw the animal after him, his lowered, his out, his glaring, and his whole that of the most ferocity.
Had the come in with the or man while in that mood he would have work of him.
But great as was his speed, it not equal that of the steam man, who took such that a minutes to him all danger.
Johnny off steam, but he up a good gait, not to his close with his enemy. The he was ground, and gave up the and off at a to join his companions, none the for the he had received.
As soon as the boy himself the of the animal's he the man and a minute of the machinery.
The and of the had the iron skin of the steam man, but the being over a large area, no other damage, if this be called of itself.
The boy was pleased, not only at his but at the manner in which his had the of collision. It gave him a in it which he had not felt.
Turning his more toward the mountains, he again let on a good of steam and over the at a rate. An hour was to him to the base, where he halted.
He had not the of the trapper, but, like almost any person, he not see any for alarm. He every part of the and that was in his of vision, but nothing alarming.
He the of Baldy was a warning, such as a person to one he has to is careless in his conduct.
It therefore little self-argument upon his part after his man in proper 'condition,' to start off on a up the side. It was not his to more than an hour or so, unless he came across some game. He had a quantity of ammunition, and was that his was loaded, so as not to be taken by any emergency.
Although Johnny Brainerd was with form, yet he was very quick and active upon his feet, and along over the rocks, and across the like a deer, with such a of that he danger.
However, he had gone but a distance, when he was by a low growl, and his head, saw to his horror, that he had nearly against a animal, which he at once as the bear.
Such a meeting would have an hunter, and it was therefore with no nerve that he his piece to his and fired.
The the in the body, doing just what his at the had done some time before. It him, without anything like a wound. With a of the for him.
What would the boy have given, as he the side, were he now in his wagon, over the at a which would him to laugh to any such speed as that of the brute.
At he had of his refuge, but he was not long in that it was impossible, and that if he he must some very speedily.
When he himself a goodly-sized tree it looked like a to him, and his gun to the ground, he the tree in the time that he had made.
He was none too soon as it was, for the was so close him that he the of its along his feet, as he them its reach.
Hastily to the very top of the tree, he himself among the limbs, and then to see what his enemy was doing. Great was his to him on his haunches, himself with upward.
The of temporary safety was a relief, but when a full hour had by, with a single of position upon the part of the brute, Johnny to ask himself what was to be the end of all this.
It looked as though the had in making his dinner upon the who had to fire a at him. The patience of an animal is than that of a being, and that of the to a great that of his who in the above.
