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sleeping, etc., during the night, without regard to the 

 moon or anything else, and spend the day in close 

 concealment. 



These movements are varied somewhat in what is 

 known as the "running time;" a matter we will con- 

 sider hereafter. 



How much antelope move by night I cannot say. 

 But they certainly move far more by day than deer 

 do, and it is therefore probable that they move much 

 less at night, if they move at all. Though they lie 

 down during a large part of the day, they are still 

 much longer on foot than deer are. And generally 

 some of the band are on foot while the rest are lying 

 down. All that I have ever seen watered in the morn- 

 ing from sunrise to nine or ten o'clock. Their habits 

 may, however, vary in this respect with places. They 

 are much more apt to feed ahead on a straight course 

 than deer are, and cover a much greater area of 

 ground in doing so. They go- many miles for water 

 if necessary. In fact in nearly all their business they 

 travel a mile where a deer goes two hundred yards. 

 But whatever they are doing they are watching, 

 watching, watching; trusting more to their great eyes 

 and less to nose and ears than a deer does to his. 



