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escape the best dogs, my Colorado friend told me it 

 was unusual for them to return without an antelope 

 when they went coursing, and Grinnell says General 

 Stanley's dog Gibbon in 1873, caught, unaided, twenty- 

 one antelopes. The antelope is short-winded and can- 

 not long maintain its speed. 



The side-shot at an antelope, as at other game, is 

 the best. Grinnell, who knows an antelope inside as 

 well as out, says : "Aim at the little curl of hair just 

 back of the elbow, as in most herbivores the heart 

 in the antelope is low and usually the creature drops 

 to a well-directed ball ; at the same time I have seen 

 an antelope run four hundred yards with its heart torn 

 to pieces." 



The antelope will sometimes not observe a sports- 

 man who steps out of a wagon, and while the animal is 

 engaged in watching the moving vehicle it may the 

 more easily be approached — behind good cover, of 

 course. If two horsemen are together,one may slip off 

 while the other proceeds leading his horse, but the an- 

 telope of to-day is a remarkably smart animal and such 

 manoeuvres are more likely to fail than to succeed. 



Judge Caton kept antelopes in domestication in his 

 park in Illinois, but they did not thrive and they have 

 not done very well anywhere, I believe, in zoological 

 gardens or parks east of the Mississippi at least.* The 

 opinion of Judge Caton is that the antelope will never 

 do well away from its native grounds. It may be that 



* Mr. E. C. Mallory, of Buffalo Centre, Iowa, tried raising antelopes in 

 captivity, and a short time ago had " a very fine bunch." In a letter to the 

 writer he says the "antelope business was not very successful. They 

 seemed at the age of eighteen months to lose their health." They died so 

 rapidly that Mr. Mallory says the "wind seemed to get away willi tiiem." 



