Baby Water Buffalo

After Curt Lemon died, Rat went kinda crazy with grief.  The men roped in a baby water buffalo and lead it up to the camp.  Rat went over and pet it, just pettin' the damn thing at first, when when it refused the food he offered it, he must've gotten a little pissed.  Because then, he walked over grabbed his gun and stomped back over and shot the beast in the knee, sent it crashin' down, he wasn't tryin' to kill it, he was only tryin' to hurt it...  The kid was probably takin' his grief out on somethin' that couldn't fight back.  He kept on shootin' it.  The buffalo never made a sound.  Rat shot it 'till it couldn't get up anymore.  After he was sure it was dead, he just walked away.  But the baby buffalo wasn't dead, it was still just barely alive.  Crazy.  Some of the men grabbed it and threw it into a well.  Rat didn't ever mention that baby buffalo, probably never even crossed his mind, he was still in the grieving process.  He had lost his best friend.  He also tried writin' Curt's sister back home, called her a cooze when she didn't write back, ha ha not my choice of words, but Rat was not the cursing type I guess.