https://mondaysfinishthestory.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/mondays-finish-the-story-april-20th-2015/
Today’s photo and opening line were inspired by fellow writer Phylor of Phylor’s Blog!
Photo © 2015, Barbara W. Beacham
Finish the story begins with: “They followed the buffaloes and their babies along the trail heading into the woods.” The hunters slowly pushed the group and moved them to the safety of the woods.
This group of buffaloes is very special. Two years back the hunters saw two cows and a bull wandering on their own far away from the big mass of migrating beasts. The three were not interested in moving along. They stayed during the winter and survived. After the winter it was wonderful to see the two cows giving birth to their calves. One had twins, the other only one baby. The mothers were proud of their young. They had enough to eat the whole summer. The small herd did not mind grazing and staying near the hunters camp. Following the group was extra special to the hunters too. Now they had their own buffalo herd. If they kept on looking after them and hiding them in the woods they would grow in numbers and give meat to their small group of hunters.
Maybe they will use this herd for milk and milk products instead meat, except for the bulls. Excellent story Srapydo2! I enjoyed reading it.
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Mmm, I wonder, buffaloes don’t want to be tamed. Thank you for reading and commenting. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Mooi storie Sus
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Baie dankie
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I love the story Scrapydo! Nicely done… Thanks for this contribution to the MFtS challenge! Stay tuned for the upcoming challenge. The photo will be laughing at you…me…the others… 🙂 Be well… ^..^
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Thanks a lot, was a bit hard to really think about the photo and the first line. Looking forward to next week
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Think of laughter….the post will have something to do with this…
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Lovely story!
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Thank you
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Sadly there is no excitement or bloodlust in herding tame animals for the hunter killers ~ This small affectionate herd will probably be used as a larder while the killing continues ~ Good writing Scrapydotwo 🙂
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In real life it would never be like this. Hunters won’t look after animals when they are not “wild”. Thanks for your comment and reading my writing
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The hunters are playing a waiting game – not good for the herd.
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I think the hunters won’t enjoy “hunting” tamed down animals. Excitement is out of it
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