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CHEETA STALKING ANTELOPE. 
quite unfit for ears polite. If the cheeta .succeeds in his last 
spring, he appears to strike the antelope somewhere about the 
hocks, knocking him down, and m an instant he has htm by 
the throat, and flinging one paw over one of the horns, holds 
him till the keeper comes up and cuts the antelope's throat, 
catching the blood in a cup, this is given to the cheeta, who 
greedily laps it up, and is then hooded and put on the cart, 
ready for another chase. 
I noticed that the cheeta never penetrated the throat of 
the antelope with his teeth, though the victim lay so still that 
it appeared to be dead. 1 suppose it was perfectly paralysed 
with fear. I do not know whether this is always the case. 
The keeper told me this one never bit its prey ; he also said 
that no hunting leopard was any good for the chase unless he 
had killed antelope when in a wild state. 
CHEETA STALKiNG ANTELOPE. 
There is another mode of hunting with tliis animal 
namely : showing him the antelope a long way off and letting 
him stalk them ; it is most interesting to see how well he does 
it, taking advantage of the grass or a bit of uneven ground, 
and in this way working up close to the herd ; but it is often 
very tedious watching him, as he will he perdu for a long 
