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lopes, which was not deid yet, though 1 sup- 

 posed that it wr,s just about breathing its last, 

 and went on after the antelope. I started on 

 their trail, overtook them and killed six, and 

 when I got back to where I had left my horse, 

 he was missing, as was also the antelope I 

 hitched to him. 1 started out after chem and 

 tound the antelope leading the horse by the 

 picket rope. I soon dispatched it and started 

 round gathering up w^hat I had killed. I tied 

 their heads together, two and two, 2.nd threw 

 them across my horse until I got them all on, 

 then I went in driving my horse before me. 

 I must have presented an odd ^ippearance as 

 I entered die station in this manner, but, be 

 this as it may, I gave them a good supply ot 

 antelope and got my pay for them, too. 



