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attractive way that is, galloping after them on 

 horseback. They can be killed in this fashion 

 with greyhounds, and I once contributed two 

 or three dogs to a scratch-pack, with which we 

 thus killed quite a number. Any long-legged dog 

 that could run and bite was classed for our pur- 

 poses as a greyhound, and the pack consisted of 

 true greyhounds, wire-haired Scotch staghounds, 

 and crosses between them and between grey- 

 hounds and foxhounds. Where really good 

 greyhounds are used for pronghorn chasing the 

 dogs are carried in wagons until the animal is 

 sighted ; but our method was to stretch out in a 

 long line of horsemen and dogs and beat across 

 country, setting the dogs upon any pronghorn 

 that started near enough by. Usually the buck 

 got away, but sometimes, if we happened upon 

 him very close, the dogs would seize him ; and at 

 other times we would mob him by sheer numbers, 

 the dogs at one end of the line turning him so 

 that before he knew where he was he had run 

 almost into those at the other end of the line. 



I enjoyed even more trying to kill pronghorn 

 on horseback when I was alone without any dogs. 

 On such occasions I always used either old 

 Manitou (by far the best hunting horse I ever 

 possessed), or else Muley, who was my favorite 

 cutting horse when I worked on the round-up. 

 Both were very fast and very enduring, and both, 



