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lope to be raised artificially ; the males are more hardy, and with 

 care nearly all can be raised." 



Better success has attended the effort to rear the young ante- 

 lope on this side the mountains. The first antelope I ever had 

 was a female, sent me by a friend when she was a year old. She 

 had followed a wagon into Kansas, from the distant plains, where 

 she had been caught the year before and raised on cow's milk. 

 Thence she was sent me by express, in a rough cage, five hun- 

 dred miles. She was badly bruised in the rough journey, the 

 hair being torn from her sides in places as large as my two 

 hands, so that I feared she could not recover from these bruises. 

 However, so soon as I turned her loose in the park she moved off 

 with agility to the rich pasture before her ; but she could not 

 wait long to satisfy her appetite, before she exercised her muscles 

 in a race among the trees and over the lawn, which, I thought, 

 resembled more the flight of a great bird than the running of a 

 quadruped. Very soon the new fine hairs appeared upon the 

 black naked skin, and rapidly grew to the length of the others. 

 During the six months I had her, I never discovered any symp- 

 toms of sickness or lameness. She was at last found dead in the 

 grounds, with blood in the mouth, evidently from an internal 

 injury. She probably came near an elk, and received a fatal 

 blow from its fore foot. She was always sprightly and playful, 

 and always followed me in my walks and drives in the park. 



In July, I purchased a male kid at Cheyenne, and brought 

 him home on condensed milk. The distance is nearly a thou- 

 sand miles, and occupied two days. He arrived in apparently 

 perfect health, and so continued till October, when he met a 

 violent death. He was always sprightly and playful. He was 

 kept about the house, and ranged through the flower garden and 

 about the lawns at will. Of all the pets I ever had, none was 

 ever so much prized by all the household as he. I have had 

 many others since, but all have died after a few months, of dis- 

 ease, many of them breaking out in sores. I have observed none 

 to be troubled with diarrhoea, and rarely a decided lameness, but 

 rather a stupid languor seemed to ojDpress them. Most of those 

 I have had were one or two years old when obtained, had been 

 raised in Kansas, where the wild ones were found, and reached 

 ray grounds in apparent health, and so continued for a month or 

 two, and would then sicken, and after one, two, or three months 

 -would die, much emaciated. The females appeared quite as 

 healthy, and survived quite as long, and in some instances 



