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PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. 



prairie antelopes, a .ittle animal peculiar to this country. They are 

 excellent food, and I was greatly amused at the method of taking 

 them. Our whole party secreted themselves in a little hollow, and 

 upon the level ground, a little way off, a stick was driven into the 

 ground and a white handkerchief hung upon it. So full of curiosity 

 are these animals, that they came bounding along towards our flag, 

 as you may see in the cut, and we were lucky enough to kill sev- 

 eral before they could get out of our reach. This was a very wel- 

 come prize, and our party returned home in high spirits. 





ELL, the autumn passed swiftly away, 

 and the drifting snows of winter soon 

 began to be piled upon the plains. Not 

 like the storms upon the sea-coast, a foot 

 |r of snow and then a high wind to whisk it 

 about a little, fill up the roads, and crawl 

 into the farm yards ; but long, steady, 

 deep snows, covering up everything 

 sometimes six or seven feet deep, and 

 rendering either hunting or travelling, except upon snow-shoes, next 



