Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

We noticed an Elk in harness passing through our streets the other day; and yesterday we saw a sight still more strange and noteworthy-a yoke of buffaloes-working kindly and efficiently, with three yoke of oxen.
On inquiry we learned that they were taken when calves, on the plains, and have been kept since in Keokuk county, running freely with the cattle on the farm, and working as occasion required, with oxen. They are heifers, and have not attained their growth, yet they are larger and stronger than than any yoke of oxen in the team, and are highly prized for service. [Des Moines Valley Whig.]