46 The King of the Thundering Herd 



for seeing things on the vast plains. He 

 soon learned to spy out the antelope as they 

 fed or scurried over the smooth prairies. 

 Of all the members of the deer family, this 

 is the shyest, and the hardest to approach, 

 and try as they would, neither Mr. Anderson 

 nor Bennie could kill an antelope. The 

 animal's stratagem was always to keep the 

 hunter in sight. They did not much care 

 if you saw them, provided they also saw 

 you, but they were pretty sure to keep 

 a half a mile between you and them. So as 

 soon as you approached too near, they were 

 off like the wind, running as only an 

 antelope can. Through the glass Bennie 

 could see them quite plainly and their 

 brindle faces, their large bulging eyes, and 

 their graceful pronged horns gave them a 

 queer look. The antelope is the only 

 member of the deer family with hollow 

 horns, and they shed them in the same 

 manner as the flat horn varieties. 



