HUNTING TRIPS 



not likely to receive attention, while a big- 

 horn or prong-horn would probably see him 

 and take the alarm at once ; and if the black- 

 tail is frightened and running he will run 

 almost over a man standing in plain sight, 

 without paying any heed to him, if the latter 

 does not move. But the very slightest move- 

 ment at once attracts a deer's attention, and 

 deer are not subject to the panics that at 

 times overtake other kinds of game. The 

 black-tail has much curiosity, which often 

 proves fatal to it ; but which with it is after 

 all by no means the ungovernable passion 

 that it is with antelope. The white-tail and 

 the big-horn are neither over-afflicted with 

 morbid curiosity, nor subject to panics or fits 

 of stupidity ; and both these animals, as well 

 as the black-tail, seem to care very little for 

 the death of tfie leader of the band, going 

 their own ways with small regard for the 

 fate of the chief, while elk will huddle to- 

 gether in a confused group, and remain al- 

 most motionless when their leader is struck 

 down. Antelope and more especially elk 



