338 BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Greyhounds coming in there and doing up their native 

 stock in such disastrous shape was too much for them, and 

 they refused to be comforted. 



I will describe one more day's chase, and I think it con- 

 stituted the finest day's sport I ever enjoyed. We had 

 found a herd of sixteen which had, apparently, never been 

 chased by hounds. We took but two hounds out that day, 

 Terry and Mike, the others not being in good form. We 

 came upon the herd standing looking at us, about half a 

 mile away. The hounds had learned to look for them 

 when we stopped, and all we had to do was to point in the 

 direction of the game, and say "Antelope!" The dogs 

 would invariably catch sight from the wagon, in which we 

 always carried them. 



Here Mike did the finest work I ever saw, and I never* 

 expect to see it equaled. The dogs both jumped from the 

 wagon, and started off; but in crossing a low place in the 

 ground the Antelope were out of sight, when Terry con- 

 cluded he was mistaken, and stopped. Mike, however, 

 knew his business, and kept on, getting within fifty yards 

 of the Antelope before they saw him. In the next quarter 

 of a mile he downed a large doe, while the balance of the 

 herd stopped half a mile away, on a ridge, and watched us. 

 We loaded the dead Antelope and hounds in the wagon, 

 and drove quartering toward the herd, keeping the hounds 

 on the lookout in the opposite direction, that they might be 

 rested for the next chase. 



The Antelope all this time were watching us. and we 

 presently began to pull in more toward them, watching every 

 move, so as to turn the hounds in their direction the moment 

 they started. Pretty soon they cantered off, and when we 

 pointed them out to the hounds, it was only an instant 

 until Mike and Terry both saw them, jumped out of the 

 wagon together, and ran off side by side. The Antelope 

 disappeared over the ridge, and presently the hounds did 

 the same, apparently running side by side as they started. 

 As we had no saddle-horses that day, we put the whip to the 

 horses, and went off at a rattling pace for the ridge, whence 



