NEW TRAVELS ON AN OLD TRAIL 49 



pursuit and, although running apart from the herd, it 

 was only a short distance behind the others. Evidently 

 the right foreleg was broken but with the car traveling 

 at twenty-five miles an hour it was still drawing ahead. 

 The going was not good and we ran for two mUes with- 

 out gaining an inch; then we came to a bit of smooth 

 plain and the motor shot ahead at thirty-five miles an 

 hour. We gained slowly and, when about one hundred 

 yards away, I leaped out and fired at the animal break- 

 ing the other foreleg low down on the left side. Even 

 with two legs injured it still traveled at a rate of fifteen 

 miles, and a third shot was requii*ed to finish the unfor- 

 tunate business. We found that both limbs were broken 

 below the knee, and that the animal had been running 

 on the stumps." 



