That which was of greatest interest was the fragment of a first rib, resembling the first rib of the extinct bison.

Harry, champion, by acclamation, of the College heavyweights, broad-shouldered, bull-necked, square-jawed, six feet and trimmings, a little science, lots of pluck, good-natured as a steer in peace, formidable as a red-eyed bison in the crack of hand-to-hand battle!

Not quite so savage is this frontier, indeed, as the wild precincts described by the Nebraska editor, whose meditations for a leader used to be cut short, occasionally, by the bellowing of the shaggy bison at his window, or the incursion of the redoubtable "grizzly" into his wood-shed where the elk-meat hung.

The children play under them; the old men crone and smoke; the surly bison and the conceited camels repose.

The shaggy-maned herds of unwieldy buffalothe bison as they should be calledhad beaten out broad roads through the forest, and had furrowed the prairies with trails along which they had travelled for countless generations.