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BUFFALO BILL'S MISTAKE.
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He Tires of Civilization - How He would
Have Fled with Dove-Eye - Why He
Failed.
[From the Indianpolis Sentinel.]
Buffalo William, Esquire or in the language
of the vulgar, Buffalo Bill, spent
his last day in the Railroad City in an unhappy
frame of mind. It was not because
he drew thing thouses of the vociferous readers
of wishy-washy weeklies and blood
and thunder novels, for the contrary
was the case. William will, in all probablility,
go [word?] on the war-path with well-replenished
wallet. Nor could his despondent
state have resulted from a lack
of fire-water, supposed to be one of the
necessary concomitants to raising hair and
shooting redskins, to which the bandit-like
denizen of the far West is supposed
to be addicted, for Bill wasto be seen
as of yore raising [word?] breakers of
most villanious stuff to his facial orifice
with an evidenc satisfaction and grafitied
look of pleasure that disproved any disagreement
of Indianpolis decoetions with
his cultiaved and aristocratic palate. No,
it could not have been the weak quality of
his daily beverage that made William sad,
for the gin-mills of the city can furnish as
vile a palate-making potion as is to be
found any-where, which the same can easily
be tested by . the skeptical. Neither did
it seem probable that the visit of a savage-looking
bailif to the temporary abiding
placing of the wild rover of the praire could
have caused the look of woe to spread over
the face of the bold hunter after the red
man in the West and the equally successful
hunter of pungent red eye in the East.

It is a well-known fact that not the most
trivial incident of the great escapes the
eye of history: this it was with untamed
hunter of the buffalo, is dejected looks
are nightfall were accounted for: He had
grown tired of the slow monotony of life
in the gay cities and longed once more for
the bracing air and untrammeled freedom
of his native plains even as the thirsty toper
after a lively attack of the jim-jams
pants for the flowing bowls. But he did
not intende to fly alone. The arrow of Cupid
had pierced hi heart and long association
with Dove Eye, of . the blood and
thunder troupe, in which Bill is a shining
light, had made him a slave to her charms.