managed to keep 'em in hand.

"The thing I was most afraid of was that they would be knocked off their
legs, and in that case we should be trampled to death in a minute. As I
leaned forward I kept one hand fixed on the neck of the buffalo next me,
and I shouted to Rube to do the same, so as we could make a shift to
jump on to the buffalo's back if our horses fell; but, I tell you, I was
beginning to fear that we shouldn't see any way out of it. What with us
in the middle, and the Utes yelling behind them, the herd war fairly
mad with fright; and there war no saying where they would go to, for,
you know, a herd of buffaloes, when fairly stampeded, will go clean over
a precipice a hundred yards high, and pile themselves up dead at the
foot till there is not one left. It war a bad fix, you bet, for I war
sure that the Utes war after us, and not after the buffaloes, for they
kept on, though they could soon have killed as many of the herd as they
wanted. It was may be four in the afternoon when the chase commenced,
and so it went on till it was dark. The buffaloes war going nigh as fast
as when we started, but the horses could scarce keep their legs; I was
sure they couldn't run much longer, so I says to Rube, 'We must get out
of this, or else we shall be done for.'

"So we sets to work a-probing the buffalo with our knives again. They
started on ahead as hard as they could, bursting a way through the
crowd. We followed close behind them, keeping up the scare until we
finds ourselves in front of the herd; then we spurred our horses on, and
dashed out in front. Done as the horses were, they knew they had got to
go, for, with the herd coming like thunder upon their heels, it was
death to stop. We swerved away to the right, but it took us half an hour
afore we war clear of the front of the herd. We went a few hundred yards
further, and then drew rein.

"Rube's horse fell dead as he stopped, and mine wasn't worth much more.
For half an hour we could hear the herd rushing along, and then it had
passed. We had got out of our biggest fix, but it warn't a pleasant
position.

"There we war out on the plains, with only one horse between us, and he
so done up that he couldn't put one foot afore the other.

"Where the Cheyennes war there was no saying; the band might have been
wiped out by the Utes, or they might have got away. At any rate there
was no counting on them. The Utes who had followed the herd would be
sure to be on our