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the wall, as proudly and curiously as it did there on 

 the prairie when I looked at it through the sights of 

 my Winchester. His portrait adorns page 199 of 

 this book, and though the artist has treated it with a 

 master's hand, it does not possess the lordly beam- 

 ing, the fascinating grace, the timid beauty that 

 distinguished the living animal. 



It was so late when we got this one dressed that 

 we decided to return to camp at once. 



The curiosity which is so prominent a feature in the 

 antelope' s nature costs many a one of them his life, 

 and is taken advantage of by the hunter in various 

 ways. When we reached camp that afternoon Dick 

 told us how he had taken advantage of it. He had 

 seen a small band on a level stretch of prairie where 

 there was no jjossible way of getting within range 

 of them, and having heard that if a man would lie 

 down on his back, elevate his feet as high as pos- 

 sible, and swing them back and forth through the 

 air, that it would attract antelopes, decided to try 

 it. But the antelopes of this section had evidently 

 never seen soap boxes or bales of hay floating 

 through the air, and had no desire to cultivate a 

 closer acquaintance with such frightful looking 

 objects as he exhibited to their astonished gaze. 

 And Dick said that when he turned to see if they 

 had yet come within shooting distance they were 

 about a mile away, and judging from the cloud of 

 dust they were leaving behind them seemed to be 

 running a race to see which could get out of the 

 country first. 



The next morning Sam and I went together and 

 Dick alone in another direction. During the fore- 



