202 GAME. 



I once wounded a large doe from a herd which ran 

 past me. I saw she was badly hurt, shot through the 

 body, and wished to give her time to lie down. Mounting 

 my horse, I rode slowly in the direction taken by the herd. 

 After proceeding half a mile I saw her standing with her 

 face partly towards me, and very much on the alert, and 

 in a moment discovered that she was in the heat of a 

 combat with a large wolf. The wolf circled round, try- 

 ing to get at her flanks and rear, and made many feints of 

 springing upon her, but, in spite of the advantage of his 

 sharp teeth, he was too cowardly to come to close quar- 

 ters. The little antelope bravely faced her foe, and con- 

 tinually charged, striking viciously with her fore feet, 

 and would certainly have beaten off her assailant, but 

 that the smell of blood made him unusually pertinacious. 

 I watched the fight for more than five minutes with the 

 greatest interest. At last the antelope in making a charge 

 slipped, probably from weakness. In an instant the wolf 

 had her by the throat, threw her on the ground, and 

 worried her like a dog. I wanted the wolf to kill her, and 

 waited for some time until she was perfectly quiet, and I 

 believed dead. I then rode up slowly. The wolf took 

 to his heels on my approach, and to my very great surprise 

 the antelope sprung to her feet and went off in another 

 direction at as great a rate of speed as before. I ran 

 her with my horse for a long distance, and finally brought 

 her to bay with another shot. The wolf, though a large 

 one, had only scarified her throat ; and, though he would 

 eventually have killed and eaten her, he had done her 

 no serious injury, although he had had her unresisting 

 in his jaws, and had been worrying her for several 

 minutes. 



Very different was the result when a pack of wolves 

 got after a wounded antelope. On the same hunt as in 

 the last case (and during which I saw more wolves than 

 ever before or since in the same time) a friend and I had 

 got several shots at a herd, bagging four or five, several of 



