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FOREST AND S T R E A M 
February, 1919 
No. 2, 
Marksmen Scries, 
Painted for 
Remington VMC, 
by 
F. X. Leyendecker. 
Rifle Skooting and Education 
THE RETURN FROM 
THE HUNT 
(continued from page 57) 
ing, white crested waste of water — that 
we decided to make camp and wait until 
it blew itself out. About nine o’clock 
we heard the sound of a motor coming 
down the lake, the steady throbbing of a 
powerful engine. It proved to be a 
fellow named Bunce who lived at Roose- 
velt on the Government Railroad and ran 
a freight boat on the lake. We welcome ' 
him with open arms and engaged him to 
tow us the rest of the way to the railroad 
in the morning. The next day broke in 
fitful manner with the gale still blowing 
and the seas running madly — white 
capped and furious. Ben went out with 
Bunce to reconnoiter and came back in 
an hour and said we could make it all 
right, so Bunce towed us out into the 
very teeth of the storm. When we got 
within a mile or two of our destination, 
it began to rain, driving into our 
faces with a sting and, a roar. Bunce 
stood at the wheel and took it like 
a man as the boat rocked and tossed be- 
neath him. Our boat was jerked along 
behind through the blinding maelstrom 
and finally landed us safely around the 
point of land by the Cabin. We soon 
had a fire going in the stove about which 
we gathered in grateful anticipation of a 
cozy afternoon indoors. The rain thun- 
dered in solemn monotone on the roof 
and we looked out of the low windows 
across the mist shrouded lake with feel- 
ings of entire satisfaction. “Let her 
rain,” said Ben, as he lay back in a bunk 
with an old magazine and settled down 
for a quiet smoke. 
(to be continued next month) 
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THE PRONGHORN 
(continued from page 75) 
that he had also seen the animals eat- 
ing leaves of the iron wood (Olneya 
tesota ) . 
During feeding hours the adult prong- 
horns lie down to rest a dozen times 
a day, always starkly in the open, ten 
or twenty yards from cover, doubtless 
from fear of the pumas (Felis im- 
procera) which sometimes prowl down 
from the hills. At noon of the hot- 
test days we found the antelope’s fresh 
beds in the most unshaded situations. 
Captain Funcke said that through the 
night, too, they slumber only in exposed 
places, and by daybreak they begin to 
browse. Usually we w’ere able to dis- 
tinguish fresh tracks from those several 
hours old by the moistness of the drop- 
pings, which would be found at rather 
frequent intervals in depressions that the 
antelopes had scratched in the soil. 
Although pronghorns are known to be 
able to drink bitter alkaline w'ater, and 
are said to repair periodically to reg^ 
ular watering places, there can be little 
doubt that those of northern Lower Cali- 
fornia do not drink at all during the 
greater part of the year. Like the desert 
kangaroo rats, and many other animals, 
they have “xerophilous” specializations, 
and obtain all their necessary moisture 
from vegetation. R. C. M. 
