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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 [ 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 diarrhcea, and rarely a decided lameness, but 
rather a stupid languor seemed to oppress 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 
my 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 
