along towards me, bound to have revenge, but just as he was
going to gore me with his wicked horns I caught hold of the long
hair on his head and yelled "Get out of here, condemn you," and I
looked him in the one eye, like this," and Pa certainly did look
fierce, "and he threw up his head, with me hanging to his hair,
and when I came down I kicked him in the ribs and he gave a grunt
and a mournful bellow, as though he was all in, and was afraid of
me, and went off over the hill, followed by the herd, scared to
death at a man that was not afraid to stand his ground against the
fiercest animal that ever trod the ground. Now, come on and help
me find the carcass." Pa looked as though he meant it.

"Well, you are a wonder," said the ranch-man, looking at Pa in
admiration. "I have seen men before that could lie some, but you
have got Annanias beaten a block. Now we will go to the house and
settle this thing, and I will send my trusty henchmen out henching
after your bull."

Then we went to the house and got dinner, and the men drove up the
buffalo into the barnyard and fed them hay, and we went out and
played with the buffaloes, and Pa found his bull hadn't a scratch
on him, and that he would lean up against Pa and rub against him
just like he was a fencepost.

The ranchman told Pa they had been stringing him, and that the
animals were so tame you could feed them out of your hand, and
that he had been shooting blank cartridges, and the only thing he
regretted was that Pa would lie so before strangers. Then pa
bought the herd for the show, and next year Pa will show audiences
how he can tame the wildest of the animal kingdom, so they will