American Big-Game Hunting 
in a few hundred yards, and sometimes hav- 
ing to run a mile or so. In consequence, by 
the time we reached the regular hunting- 
ground, the dogs were apt to have lost a 
good deal of their freshness. We would get 
them in behind the horses and creep cau- 
tiously along, trying to find some solitary 
prongbuck in a suitable place, where we 
could bring up the dogs from behind a 
hillock, and give them a fair start after 
it. Usually we failed to get the dogs near 
enough for a good start; and in most cases 
their chases after unwounded prongbuck re- 
sulted in the quarry running clean away 
from them. Thus the odds were greatly 
against them; but, on the other hand, we 
helped them wherever possible with the rifle. 
We often rode well scattered out, and if one 
of us put up an antelope, or had a chance at 
one when driven by the dogs, he would al- 
ways fire, and the pack were saved from the 
ill effects of total discouragement by so often 
getting these wounded beasts. It was aston- 
ishing to see how fast an antelope with a 
broken leg could run. If such a beast had 
a good start, and especially if the dogs were 
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