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SCR00007.060PALL MALL GAZETTE. [June 3, 1887. "MURRAY'S AND "CORNHILL." Neither of these magazine contains any article of special note. Those who find the study of coins interesting will, no doubt, read Mr. Fremantle's article in Murray with pleasure; Mrs. Craik says a good word for Houses of Rest at which hard-worked shop girls may take their holidays. Colonel "Buffalo Bill" also figures among the contributors, and a more delightful bit of self-puffery it would be hard to find. We quote the account of a hand-to-hand encounter of his with one Yellow Hand :— In the war of 1876, when I was chief scout under General Carr, we came one day face to face with the Cheyennes, and the two forces were drawn up opposite each other in regular line of battle, about haf a mile apart. I had been employed in so many expeditions by this time, that I had acquired a high reputation among the Indians as a 'warrior,' and while our troops were halted preliminary to the attack, the Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hand, rode out in front of his line, and challenged me to single combat. He shouted out that he was the greatest warrior in his own tribe, and honoured me by saying that I was reputed the greatest warrior among the whites. If I dared, he wanted me to come forward | SCR00007.060 |