Coursing the Prongbuck 
any other game. They would be even harder 
to secure were it not that they are subject 
to fits of panic, folly, or excessive curiosity, 
which occasionally put them fairly at the mercy 
of the rifle-bearing hunter. 
Prongbucks are very fast runners indeed, 
even faster than deer. They vary greatly 
in speed, however, precisely as is the case 
with deer; in fact, I think that the average 
hunter makes altogether too little account 
of this individual variation among different 
animals of the same kind. Under the same 
conditions different deer and antelope vary 
in speed and wariness, exactly as bears and 
cougars vary in cunning and ferocity. When 
in perfect condition a full-grown buck ante- 
lope, from its strength and size, is faster and 
more enduring than an old doe; but a fat 
buck, before the rut has begun, will often be 
pulled down by a couple of good greyhounds 
much more speedily than a flying yearling 
or two-year-old doe. Under favorable cir- 
cumstances, when the antelope was jumped 
near by, I have seen one overhauled and 
seized by a single first-class greyhound; and, 
on the other hand, I have more than once 
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