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to try and catch sight of the game without moving 

 from where he stands, after his master has dismounted 

 for a shot, and he is as eager and as interested as 

 the keenest hunter of the party. The prong-horn 

 show themselves, but not in great numbers, they, Hke 

 the rest of the game, having been scared by the 

 burning of the plains, probably in spite, by the 

 Indians.' 



