The Prong- Horned Antelope 
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bargain both\for housewife and ourselves 
was made. 
The shoe shop did not display a large gold 
sign or show any incikation outside of its 
nature, but those of us who wished a pair of 
wooden klompen, and visited the shop for 
that purpose, soon found that shoes were a 
minor consideration, and fell to sketching 
the interior, continuing our purchasing only 
as an excuse for our staying. The >walls 
were of wood, painted Indian red. Things 
partly used and partly saved were strewn 
here and there. Yellow tarpaulins and 
blue fishing coats hung from the rafters, 
and a Delft tiled fireplace with old copper 
and brass belongings shone in its dark 
casement. Before this were piled the shoes 
— all sizes jumbled together, and before I 
had a pair that "mated " I discovered that 
it was the customer's pleasure and not the 
storekeeper's to transact whatever business 
was done. 
Days of work under the tiled and moss- 
grown roof of the attic studio, lined with old 
patched sails, bleached and rotted by sun 
and water, but breathing stories of the sea; 
THE PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE 
THE PRONG BUCK OF AMERICA ( ANTlLb^'APRA 
AMERICANA, ORD. i8i8j 
BY ERNEST THOMPSON S ETO N 
Illustrations by the author and from photographs 
N that eventful annus domini saw Antelope; but there is no name and no 
1535, when Jacques Cartier definite description of them in his record, 
ascended the St. Lawrence The nearest he comes to it is on the Buffalo 
to be the white discoverer of plains, where Castaneda speaks of 'siervos, 
Hochelaga, Francisco Vas- remendados de bianco' (the stags patched 
quez de Coronado also land- with white), 
ed in Mexico and became a pioneer and an "Herrera mentions them under their 
empire builder of world-wide fame. Five proper name of herrendos (Decade II, p. 
years later he set forth on his memorable 288, 1601). I do not recall any mention of 
march northward as far, we now believe, as them in Gomara." 
Kansas, discovering and possessing in the In 165 1 Hernandez described this animal, 
name of the Cross and the King. He calls it Teuthlalmayame or Temama- 
Without doubt he was the first white man fame; evidently these were the native Aztec 
to see the Antelope herds. Mr. Charles F. names, and in the same paragraph he uses 
Lummis writes me that: the name ''Berendos," by which it is yet 
"Coronado's Expedition unquestionably known in Mexico. But it did not receive 
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Lyp je, with cheeks and neck like rose-leaves 
on ivory, tall,hoydenish, but good-natured, 
and her old uncle, whose days for the trawl- 
ing net and Hne were over; children, round- 
eyed and wondering, but mischievous in the 
end; and newly found friends who always 
knew of old friends — these made the days 
short and the mind contented. 
One evening, when the wind blew cool 
and the deep blue of night darkened the 
heavens, the proprietor's daughters, of 
which he had three, walked with me to the 
slittle cabin boat I had seen during my first 
on the canal. My pack, which was 
considerably added to by costumes and 
sketcbes, was placed upon the roof; and, as 
the captain tugged at the hawser and the 
mate piMied with his pole, I made my 
adieus anoSsilently, by the light of a solitary 
lamp, founcrmy way to a seat in the low- 
roofed cabin am^ng a group of the villagers. 
The bumping ol the boat signalled her 
destination in the ns^wn, where the waiting 
train hustled me oncesmore into the cease- 
less din and nerve-racKing elements of a 
big city. 
