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times, even, they will come part way to meet the hunter. 

 Of course on all such occasions the wind must be favorable. 

 But an antelope cannot be fooled in that way, excepting in 

 a remote place where they have not been hunted. They are 

 suspicious of any unusual object, and will keep at a safe 

 distance. The only way to approach an antelope is to keep 

 entirely out of sight, unless they may be blinded by looking 

 toward the sun, when it is only a little way above the hori- 

 zon. 



Of course I am stating these things as I have learned 

 them from my own observations. The experiences of others 

 may vary a good deal from my own. 



One more word in regard to the habits of these differ- 

 ent kinds of wild animals as to whether they visit the water- 

 ing places once a day or not. 



In the early days, here in Antelope county, there were 

 many more antelope than deer and elk together, and yet it 

 was seldom that an antelope was seen to visit a watering 

 place, while the deer were very often seen at, or going to, 

 or from the water. Besides where there was a pond or pool 

 on the prairie distant from any other watering place, it 

 would show many more tracks of deer than antelope, and 

 if a herd of elk had recently been in the neighborhood, it 

 would be all trampled up by them. 



One time in the early eighties it must have been in 

 1883 or 1884 I made my last hunt in Wheeler county. 

 There had been only a few deer in Antelope county since 

 the hard winter of 1880, but there were still a good many 

 white tail and a few black tail deer left in Wheeler county, 

 especially in the western part about the head of Beaver creek. 

 My nephew, W. H. Whitmore, who had never been out on 

 a hunt, was very anxious to make one try at it before the 

 game all disappeared from this part of the state. A full 

 account of the hunt will not be given in detail for the reason 



