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pose not much more excited than the English- 

 1.1 en. The men were sadly disappointed at 

 the escape oi their game, bat consoled them- 

 selves by drinking anot' er bottle of beer and 

 breaking the bottle a before. We moved on 

 a couple of miles and camped for the night on 

 a small creek, and when we arose in the 

 mnrningwe could see antelope in every direc- 

 tion, but we hitched up and drove on. The 

 antelope seemed to be tolerably tame, and the 

 pleasure hunters kept up a continual tiring at 

 them as we passed along until after noon, but 

 without any other effect than to frighten the 

 animals. When we stopped for dinner one of 

 ihem suggested that they put ''the old man'- — 

 nieanin.: me — to shotting or we would starve 

 before we could get back to the station. 

 ''Because," said he, ''we have fired five 

 'undred shots to-day and kille " nothing, hand 

 if this thing is kept hup we will soon be out 

 of hammunition hand no game heither." They 

 then put it to a vote and it was unanimously 

 agreed that I should kill them an antelope. I 

 told them that it they would all stay in the 



