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On the other hand, Paul shouted, and called on Ellen to
come and assist him in shouting, but his voice was lost in the
bellowings and trampling of the herd. Furious, and yet strangely
excited by the obstinacy of the brutes and the wildness of the sight,
and nearly maddened by sympathy and a species of unconscious
apprehension, in which the claims of nature were singularly mingled
with concern for his mistress, he nearly split his throat in exhorting
his aged friend to interfere.
"Come forth, old trapper," he shouted, "with your prairie inventions!
or we shall be all smothered under a mountain of buffaloe humps!"
The old man, who had stood all this while leaning on his rifle, and
regarding the movements of the herd with a steady eye, now deemed it
time to strike his blow. Levelling his piece at the foremost bull,
with an agility that would have done credit to his youth, he fired.
The animal received the bullet on the matted hair between his horns,
and fell to his knees: but shaking his head he instantly arose, the
very shock seeming to increase his exertions.


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