Hunting in Many Lands 



was with me, two of the watchful does which 

 were in the band saw me before I could get a 

 shot at the old buck. I was creeping up a low 

 washout, and, by ducking hastily down again 

 and running back and up a side coulee, I man- 

 aged to get within long range of the band as 

 they cantered off, not yet thoroughly alarmed. 

 The buck was behind, and I held just ahead of 

 him. He plunged to the shot, but went off 

 over the hill crest. When I had panted up to 

 the ridge, I found him dead just beyond. 



One of the antelope I killed while I was out 

 on foot at nightfall, a couple of miles from the 

 wagon ; I left the shoulders and neck, carrying 

 in the rest of the carcass on my back. On the 

 other occasion I had my horse with me and 

 took in the whole antelope, packing it behind 

 the saddle, after it was dressed and the legs 

 cut off below the knees. In packing an ante- 

 lope or deer behind the saddle, I always cut 

 slashes through the sinews of the legs just 

 above the joints ; then I put the buck behind 

 the saddle, run the picket rope from the horn 

 of the saddle, under the belly of the horse, 

 through the slashes in the legs on the other 

 side, bring the end back, swaying well down on 

 it, and fasten it to the horn ; then I repeat the 



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