Pace 0. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., APRI] . 20, 1909. PRONG BUCK THEODORE ROOSEVELT Putnam's Sons rement with G, P ork and London.} [Copyright, Published Putnam's where dwells the the wide plains prong - buck the hunter must times face thirst, as well fire and frost only time I ever really suffered from thirst was while hunting prong-buck. It was late in the summer. 1 was with the ranch wagon on the way to join a round-up, and as we were out of meat I started for a day's hunt, After two or three hours’ ride, winding coulies, and through some- as The up the scorched desolation of patches of Bad Lands, I reached the rolling prairie. The heat and drought had long burned the short grass dull brown; the bot- toms of what had been pools were covered with hard, dry, cracked earth The day was cloudless, and the heat oppressive. There were many ante lope, but 1 got only one shot, breaking a buck’s leg; and though I followed it for a couple of hou not take it. By t 18 1 the afternoon, from the river; s §n the bed found pools of wards the head, as | watercours ever, thoug! yard tl over- anv ally bef and awl grass sleep and when thirst continu creek be straight Finally I aw For an bh tw re ed my ar h POR at | (24) the »d; then abs ind rode for the river r the time we reached it my thirst had come back with redoubled force, my mouth was parched, and the horse was In quite as bad a plight; we rushed down to the brink, and it seemed as if we could neither of us ever drink our fill of the tepid, rather muddy water. Of course this experience wa pleasant; thi danger in the plains whereas In extend from Utah and Nes menaces plorer In the be Ir rst 18 ne provoking bounds w deep or alm tle w rolled over were n ( " to put on their was drows quicksand and In cons landing ent bank hese with our ropes Although 1 have had a down In quicksand or In crossing a swollen and had to hard to save him, 1 have never myself lost under Yet once | saw men drown under him directly in fron of the ranch house, while he was try ing to cross the river. This was In early spring, soon after the ice had broken, When making long wagon trips over the great plains, antelope often offer th the } | feet agah rather choked wn str dif od. or Many uence the swam de struck a river had whe ro mn mi der 1 we ofter horse have worl river one such clreumstances the horse of one of m» the only source of meat supply, save | water fowl, sage fowl | for occasional and prairie fowl the sharp-talled prairie fowl, be It understood. This is the characteristic grouse of the cat tle country; the true prairie fowl Is bird of the farming land farther east, Towards the end of the summer of "02 1 found it necessary to travel from my ranch to the Black Hills, some two hundred miles south. The ranch wag | beside an all on went with driven by a man of iron nerves the sheriff of our He was an old friend of mine; at time 1 had served as deputy-sheriff for the northern end of the county. In the we carried our food and camp kit, and our three rolls of bedding, wrapped in a thick, nearly waterproof canvas sheet; we had a tent, but we never needed {it The load being light, the w drawn by but a span of horses, a pair of wild runaways, tough, and good travellers, My foreman and I rode the wagon on wiry, un kempt, unshod cattle-ponles. They car ried us ali day at a rack, pace, single foot or slow lope, varied by rapid gal loping when we made long circles aft er game; the trot, the favorite galt with eastern park-riders, is disliked all peoples who their life-work in the The first day's ride was not tive. The heat was g, as we had to drive for the first few me, round plainsman, and county varied past, one wagon each agon was our have to do mucl saddle. intense inted in this neighborhood in the fall, height of the rutting season. Prong-bucks, even more than other game, seem fairly maddened by erotic ex At the were In was at the itement time of my ceaseless leaders in and the whole herd followed We got the all the he wishes, he will not peare the game and waste cartridges by shooting at such long ranges, pre ferring to spend half a day or more in patient waiting and careful stalking; but If he is traveling, and is therefore eramped for time, he must take his chances, even at the cost of burning a good deal of powder, time 1 was finally helped to success by n | characteristic freak of the game I was following No as prong-horns; but no others are so whimsical and odd In their behavior | at times, or so subpect to fits of the most stupid curlosity and panie, Late in the afternoon, on topping a rise | saw two good bucks racing off about three hundred yards to one side: | other animals are as) keen-sighted, or are normally as wary | | gprang to the ground, and fired three | shots at them in vain, as they ran like | quarter-horses until they disappeared over a slight swell, In a minute, how- ever, back they came, suddenly ap- pearing over the crest of the same swell, Immediately In front of me, and, as I afterwards found by pacing, some three hundred and thirty yards away, They stood side by side facing me, and remained motionless, unheed ing the crack of the Winchester; 1 anlmed at the right-hand one, but a front shot of the kind, at such a dis tance, Is rather difficult, and it not until I fired for the fourth that he sank back out of sight, 1 could not tell whether I had killed him, and took two shots at his mate, as the latter went off, but without effect. Running forward, 1 found the first the bullet having g« through him lengthwise; the other did not satisfied even yet, nnd kept hanging round in the di for some minutes, looking at us, I had thus bagged one prong-back, as the net outcome of the expenditure of fourteen cartridges. This tainly not good but was it as bad as {t seem to the man inexperienced In antelope hunting. was time one dead, me seem stance was cer neither shooting: would in no Throwing the buck into the wag we continued our journey across the prairie, no longer following any road, and before sunset jolted down towards for had many creek which we beer water hour or so roun turned In under the blanket ol to of sound asleep and then and liste the wailing covoles until We determin we fell in this ¢ and kill anot iid soon be 1 wx] to stay all d 0 as to try prong we g grounds 1 did next n breakfast, w wo the gol have to go 11 my game ing, for soon after sitting on my canvas bag cleaning my rifle, the sheriff suddenly called to me that a bunch of antelope were coming towards Sure enough there they were, four In number, rather over half a mile off, on the first bench of prairie, two or three hundred yi back of the creek, leisure feeding In our direction In a minute two they were out of sight, and 1 instantly | ran along the creek towards them for a quarter of a mile, and then crawled up a short shallow coulle, close to the head of which they seemed likely to pass. When nearly at the end 1 enn tiously raised my hatless head, peered through some straggling weeds, and at once saw the horns of the buck | He was a big fellow, about a hundred | and twenty yards off; the others, n doe and two kids, were in front. As I lift ed myself on my elbows he halted and | turned his raised head towards me; the sunlight shone bright on his sup ple, vigorous body with its markings of sharp!y contrasted brown and white. 1 pulled trigger, and aw ay | he went; but 1 could see that his race | was nearly run, and he fell after going | e fow hundred yards us the rds or NEXT WEEK: Bear and Caribou’ “Black | | Rémance Fades With a Princess. 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