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dently whistled uncomfortably close to several of 

 them. They are now thoroughly frightened. You 

 insert another cartridge, hurriedly draw a bead on 

 the largest buck again, and fire. You break dirt 

 just beyond him, and we can't tell for the life of us 

 how or on which side of Lim your bullet passed. It 

 is astonishing how much vacant space there is round 

 an antelope, anyway. This time they go, sure. 

 They have located the puff of smoke, and are gone 

 with the speed of the wind away to the west. But 

 don't be discouraged, my friend. You did some 

 clever shooting, some very clever shooting, and a 

 little practice of that kind will enable you to score 

 before night. 



We go back to our horses, mount, and gallop 

 away again across the table-land. A ride of another 

 mile brings us to the northern margin of this plateau, 

 and to a more broken country. Here we dismount and 

 picket our horses again. We ascend a high butte, 

 and from the top of it we can see three more antelope 

 about a mile to the north of us; but this time they 

 are in a hilly, broken country, and the wind is com- 

 ing directly from them to us. We shall be able to 

 get a shot at them at short range. So we cautiously 

 back down out of sight, and then begins the tedious 

 process of- stalking them. We walk briskly along 

 around the foot of a hill for a quarter of a mile, to 

 where it makes a turn that would carry us too far 

 out of our course. We must cross this hill, and 

 after looking carefully at the shape and location of 

 it, we at last iind a low point in it where by lying 

 flat down we can crawl over it without revealing our- 

 selves to the game. It is a most tedious and painful 



