^18 EARLY DAY STORIES. 



Two or three times I tried to capture young antelope 

 by watching with a field glass from the top of a hill that 

 commanded a good view in all directions. I had been told 

 by a man who tried the plan, th'at by watching the old does 

 when they visit their young, the place where the young ones 

 are hidden can thus be found. The young of the deer, ante- 

 lope and elk do not follow the mother at first, but lie hidden 

 most of the time for several days. The young antelope lie 

 out in the open prairie, partly, screened by the grass, but 

 deer and elk hide their fawns in thickets of brush, or in tall 

 weeds or grass. As stated I tried two or three times to find 

 where the young antelope were by watching the old ones. 

 I could see antelope all the time from my position, gener- 

 ally in five or six different places, many of them being does, 

 but I did not succeed in seeing a single one when in the act 

 of visiting the young ones. It was too tedious a process, 

 and after watching for two or three hours each time, I gave 

 it up. It is probable that these visits to their young are 

 made both late in the afternoon and early in the morning. 

 In fact there is plenty of evidence that such is the case. I 

 have found young antelope several times, but always when 

 accidentally I came upon them as in the case related above. 



At one time in Greeley county I saw four or five deer 

 feeding in a little narrow valley not more than a quarter 

 of a mile away. It was early in the spring and the grass 

 was just beginning to be green, the prairie having been 

 burned over the previous fall. They were near a steep bank 

 along which grew clumps of box elder, and masses of choke 

 cherry bushes. I thought I would see how close I could 

 approach without frightening them. By going around some 

 distance I could walk to within a dozen rods of them, and 

 still keep out of sight, and then could crawl right up to the 

 edge of the steep bank. I had no difficulty in getting within 

 twenty steps of them and from my position, lying flat on 

 the ground, could see them plainly through the screen of 



