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ably make a rush straight to the mouth, even 

 if the foe is stationed there, and will run 

 heedlessly by him, no matter how narrow 

 the mouth is, rather than not try to reach the 

 open country. It is almost impossible to 

 force them into even a small patch of brush, 

 and they will face almost certain death rather 

 than try to leap a really very trifling obsta- 

 cle. If caught in a glade surrounded by a 

 slight growth of brushwood, they make no 

 effort whatever to get through or over this 

 growth, but dash frantically out through the 

 way by which they got in. Often the deer, 

 especially the black-tail, will wander out on 

 the edge of the plain frequented by antelope ; 

 and it is curious to see the two animals sep- 

 arate the second there is an alarm, 

 the deer making for the broken coun- 

 try, while the antelope scud for the level 

 plains. Once two of my men nearly caught 

 a couple of antelope in their hands. They 

 were out driving in the buck-board, and saw 

 two antelope, a long distance ahead, enter 

 the mouth of a wash-out (a canyon in 



