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the herd, cut one out — a large, fine buck — and in less time 

 than it takes to write it he threw it heels over head, and the 

 other hounds, which had meantime drawn up, covered it 

 before it could get up. 



Everybody yelled like wild men, and we put our horses 

 to the best pace in them till we were all in the struggling 

 mass, when Jones drew his knife, and, dismounting, caught 

 the buck by the horn and severed its jugular. 



This run scattered the Antelope and made them very 

 wild, so we concluded to go to town, and try them the next 

 day. 



Bright and early the next morning, we were back where 

 we left the game.- After driving over a large extent of terri- 

 tory, we found the same bunch again,, and turned the hounds 

 loose, when Mike duplicated his previous day' s record. For 

 four days we returned to the flats, and each day Mike sus- 

 tained his reputation, and caught his Antelope every time he 

 was turned loose on the herd. 



We had now caught five out of this bunch, and felt 

 proud of our success; but the survivors had become so wild 

 that it was almost impossible to get the dogs within sight 

 of them, and we concluded to take the first train to Hart- 

 land, about thirty miles west, where Antelope were 

 reported plentiful, and in large bands. 



When we arrived at Hartland, the sportsmen there 

 laughed at us for bringing hounds to catch Antelope with. 

 They did not believe us when we told them we had caught 

 five at Garden City. They had some hounds that they said 

 could run some, and they had run them on Antelope fifty 

 times, but never succeeded in catching one unless it had 

 first been wounded, and they knew it couldn't be done. 

 We offered to put up something on our dogs, but the local 

 lads didn't care to back their Antelope with their wealth; 

 so, to satisfy them, we invited them to gather up their 

 hounds and go with us the next day. 



We hunted north of town for twenty -five or thirty miles, 

 and at last sighted a herd of six, about half a mile away. 

 The crowd became much excited, and talked loudly, which 



