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men had gone in to make them. The antelope 

 regarded the workmen with a friendliness and 

 curiosity untempered by the slightest touch of 

 apprehension. When the men took off their 

 coats the little creatures would nose them over 

 to see if they contained anything edible, and they 

 would come close up and watch the men plying 

 the pick with the utmost interest. Mr. Hornaday 

 took us inside, and they all came up in the most 

 friendly manner. One or two of the bucks would 

 put their heads against our legs and try to push 

 us around, but not roughly. Mr. Hornaday told 

 me that he was having great difficulty, exactly as 

 with the mule-deer, in acclimatizing the antelope, 

 especially as the food was so different from what 

 they were accustomed to in their native haunts. 



The wild fawns are able to run well a few days 

 after they are born. They then accompany the 

 mother everywhere. Sometimes she joins a band 

 of others; more often she stays alone with her 

 fawn, and perhaps one of the young of the previ- 

 ous year, until the rut begins. Of all game the 

 prongbuck seems to me the most excitable during 

 the rut. The males run the does much as do the 

 bucks of the mule and whitetail deer. If there 

 are no does present, I have sometimes watched a 

 buck run to and fro by himself. The first time I 

 saw this I was greatly interested, and could form 

 no idea of what the buck was doing. He was by 



