22 HUNTING TRIPS 



other hand, is a marvellous vertical leaper; 

 the black-tail deer comes next ; the white-tail 

 is pretty good, and the elk is at any rate bet- 

 ter than the antelope ; but when it comes to 

 horizontal jumping the latter can beat them 

 all. 



In May or early June the doe brings forth 

 her fawns, usually two in number, for she is 

 very prolific. She makes her bed in some 

 valley or hollow, and keeps with the rest of 

 the band, only returning to the fawns to feed 

 them. They lie out in the grass or under 

 some slight bush, but are marvellously hard 

 to find. By instinct they at once know how 

 to crouch down so as to be as inconspicuous 

 as possible. Once we scared away a female 

 prong-horn from an apparently perfectly 

 level hill-side; and in riding along passed 

 over the spot she had left and came upon two 

 little fawns that could have been but a few 

 hours old. They lay flat in the grass, with 

 their legs doubled under them and their necks 

 and heads stretched out on the ground. 

 When we took them up and handled them, 



