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cord of the arc and headed the antelope, but 

 he knew too well what she would do to give 

 himself that trouble. After a little, it was 

 evident that the antelope would come back 

 pretty near to the hill, but on the other side 

 of it from where she had passed before, and 

 the wolf which I had first seen chasing her 

 trotted out two or three hundred yards on to 

 the prairie and sat down. The antelope was 

 now coming back almost directly toward him, 

 and I could see that there were two wolves 

 behind her, one close at her heels and the 

 other a long way further back. The first 

 wolf now seemed quite excited. He no longer 

 sat up, but crouched close to the ground, 

 every few moments raising his head very 

 slowly to take a look at the doe, and then 

 lowering it again, so that he would be out of 

 sight. Sometimes he crawled on his belly a 

 few feet further from me, evidently trying to 

 put himself directly in the path of the ante- 

 lope ; and this he seemed to have succeeded 

 in doing. As she drew near him I could see 

 that she was staggering, she was so tired, and 

 the wolf behind could at any moment have 

 knocked her down if he had wanted to, but he 

 seemed to be waiting for something. The 



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