Hunting with Hounds 183 



perfectly simple. We started on horseback 

 and when reaching favorable ground beat 

 across it in a long scattered line of men and 

 dogs. Anything that we put up, from a fox 

 to a coyote or a prong-buck, was fair game, 

 and was instantly followed at full speed. The 

 animals we most frequently killed were jack- 

 rabbits. They always gave good runs, though 

 like other game they differed much individu 

 ally in speed. The foxes did not run so well, 

 and whether they were the little swift, or the 

 big red prairie fox, they were speedily snapped 

 up if the dogs had a fair showing. Once 

 our dogs roused a blacktail buck close up 

 out of a brush coulie where the ground was 

 moderately smooth, and after a headlong chase 

 of a mile they ran into him, threw him and 

 killed him before he could rise. (His stiff- 

 legged bounds sent him along at a tremen 

 dous pace at first, but he seemed to tire rather 

 easily.) On two or three occasions we killed 

 whitetail deer, and several times antelope. 

 Usually, however, the antelopes escaped. 

 The bucks sometimes made a good fight, but 

 generally they were seized while running, 

 some dogs catching by the throat, others by 

 the shoulders, and others again by the flank 

 just in front of the hind-leg. Wherever the 



