236 THE STILL-HUNTER. 



When you hear a comrade shoot, run at once to 

 a rock, piece of high ground, or other command- 

 ing position. Remain there some time keeping 

 a sharp outlook, for a deer may not be running away 

 from your friend fast. Or he may be wounded and 

 only walking away. And if the ground be brushy it 

 will take both patient and keen watching to keep a 

 slowly traveling deer from passing you unseen and 

 unheard. But never go at once to your companion 

 unless he calls you, for he may not be done shooting, 

 or may have wounded, one and be trying to get 

 another shot at it, etc. etc. 



In hunting antelope with companions in the ways 

 above shown, the distances you should be from one 

 another must generally be vastly greater than when 

 hunting deer. They should be at least doubled for 

 the very tamest antelope, unless upon very rolling 

 ground. And for wild ones on ground that is but a 

 little rolling the distances should be five or six and 

 sometimes nearly ten times as great. When antelope 

 get once started upon a certain course they are often 

 hard to turn from it by anything approaching from 

 the side; especially if the leading buck get ahead be- 

 fore he sees the danger. Hence a horseman can dash 

 in quite close to a long-strung-out band of antelope 

 by running in well behind the leader. They can be 

 turned, however, and driven back and forth by being 

 headed off by outposts placed far enough out ahead 

 of them. Deer could probably be managed the same 

 way upon the same kind of ground, though they are 

 ready enough to swerve from their chosen course 

 when they see danger on either side of it. And they 

 care but little for leaders. 



