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and a variety of food, as well as air and exercise. He 

 can be easily subdued, but never perfectly tamed. He 

 will scent a man a long way off, and hold his nose in 

 the air, like a pointer drawing on his game. The cry 

 of these creatures resembles the baa of a sheep, but it 

 sounds somewhat like a bark. At night especially, and 

 in still moonlight, it may be heard to a great dis- 

 tance, and roebucks are constantly answering each other 

 through nearly a whole night. 



