Paar 6. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 3, 1909, am HUNTING THE ANTELOPE THEODORE ROOSEVELT ght, 1385, by G. P. Putnam's Sons. | Published under arrangement with G. PF. Putnam's Sons, New York and London.) | URING the morning I | came in sight of several | small bands or pairs of antelope. Most of them saw me as soon as or be | fore 1 saw them, and after watching me with tntense curiosity as long as 1 was in sight and at a distance, made off at | ence as soon as I went into a hollow | or appeared to be approaching too near. Twice, in scanning the country narrow- ly with the glasses, from behind a shel tering divide, bands of prong-horn were seen that had got discovered me In each case the horse was at once left to graze, while I started off after the game, nearly a mile distant. For the | first half mile I could walk upright or along half stooping; them, as the nce grew closer, 1 had to crawl on all fours and keep behind any little brokem bank, or take advantage of a small, dry watercourse; and toward fhe end work my way flat on my face, | wriggling like a serpent, using every | stunted sagebrush or patch of cactus a cover, bareheaded under the blas- | oh sun. In each case, after nearly an bour’s irksome, thirsty work, the stalk | fafled. One band simply ram off with- | out a second's warning, alarmed at some awkward movement on my part, | and without giving a chance for a shot. | In the other instance, while still at long and uncertain range, 1 heard sharp barking alarm-note of ome of the prong-horn; the whole band in tly raising their heads and gazing ntly at thelr would-be destroyer. They were a very long way off; but, seeing It was hopeless to try to get mearer I rested my rifle over a little mound of earth and fired. The dust eame up in a puff to one side of the mearest antelope; the whole band took 8 few jumps and turned again; the second shot struck at their feet and they went off like so many race-horses, being missed again as they ran. I sat up by a sagebrush thinking they would of course not come back, when #0 my surprise I saw them wheel sound with the precision of a cavalry squadron, all in line and fronting me. the white and brown markings on their Beads and throats showing like the facings on scldiers’ uniforms; and then back they came charging up till again within long range, when they wheeled their line as If on a pivot and once more made off, this time for good, not heeding an ineffectual fusiliade from the Winchester Antelope often go through a series of regular like so many trained horsemen, wheeling, turning halting. and running as If under com mand; and thelr back to again evolutions, coming Only by frantic struggles and floundering | we managed to get over run the (as It proved very harmless) gauntlet of my fire was due either to curiosity or to one of those panicky freaks which occasionally selze those | cause | | tonishingly fast, ordinarily wary animals, and them to run Into danger easily avoid ed by creatures commonly more readily approached than they are. | had fired half a dosen shots without effect; but while no one ever gets over his feeling of self Indigna tion at missing an easy shot at close quarters, any one who hunts antelope and is not of a dispositien so timid as never to take chances, soon learns that he has to expect to expend a good deal of powder and lead before bag ging his game. By midday we reached a dry creek and followed up ita course for a wile much | | passes well ahead himself. | alr, | through exactly the same motions; and | | fore he has come within range, bu quite often an antelope will merely in- | crease his speed and try to pass ahead { justified in changing his name,” sald | of his foe. | one if alone will keep out of gunshot, | | owing to the speed nt which he goes, | but if there Almost always, however, are several In a band | which Is well strung out, the leader only cares for his own safety and! The oth- | ers follow like sheep, without turning In the least from the line the first fol. | lowed, and thus may pass within close If the leader bounds Into the those following will often go range. if he turns, the others are very apt to | | each In succession run up and turn in | | the same place, | and I, after eating a biscuit, lay on my face on the ground--there was no shade of any sort near—and dozed un. | til a couple of hours’ rest and feed had put the horse in good trim for the afternoon ride. When It came to] crossing over the dry creek on whose | bank we had rested, we almost went | down In a quicksand, and it was only by frantic struggles and flounderings that we managed to get over, On account of these quicksands and | mud-holes, crossing the creeks on the | prairie is often very disagreeable work. | Even when apparently perfectly dry | the bottom may have merely a thin | | erust of hard mud and underneath a fathomless bed of slime. If the grass | appears wet and with here and there a | few tussocks of taller blades In it, it is well to avoid it. Often a man may | have to gowlong a creek nearly a mille | before he can find a safe crossing, or else run the risk of seeing his horse | mired hard and fast. When a horse is once In a mud-hole it will perhaps so exhaust Itself by Its first desperate and fruitless struggle that it 1s almost Impossible to get it out. Its bridle and saddle have to be taken off; If another horse ls along the lariat is drawn from the pommel of the latter's! saddle to the neck of the one that is in, and it Is hauled out by malin force Otherwise a man may have to work | half a day, fixing the horse's legs In the right position and then taking it by the forelock and endeavoring to get It to make a plunge; each plunge bring | ing It perhaps a few inches nearer the firm ground. Quicksands are even more dangerous than these mud-holes as, if at all deep, a creature that can not get out immediately is sure to be speedily engulfed. Many parts of the Little Missouri are impassable on a« count of these quicksands. Always in crossing unknown ground that looks dangerous it is best to feel your way very cautiously along and, If possible, to find out some cattle trall or even game trail which can be followed For time after leaving the creek nothing was seen; until, on com ing over the crest of the next great divide, 1 came In sight of a band of six or eight prong-horn about a quar ter of a mile off to my right hand There was a slight breeze from the southeast, which lew diagonally across my path towards the antelopes The latter, after staring at me a min ute, as | rode wowly on, suddenly started at full to run directly up wind some wpeed and therefore in a direct hat =» 1 cut the line shead of that when ante of my less where I was begin are they tance cept very hard to turn would have to rus would to Inter lapped spurs into Mani tou. and the game old fellow, a ver) fleet runner, stretched himself to the ground and seemed to go almost as fast as the quarry. As 1 bad ex pected, the latter, when they saw me running, merely straightened them selves out and went on, possibly even faster than before, without changing the line of their flight, keeping right up wind. Both horse and antelope fairly flew over the ground, their courses being at an angle that would certainly bring them together. Two of the antelope led, by some Afty yards or so, the others, who were all bunched together. Nearer and nearer we came, Manitou, in spite of carrying myself and the pack behind the sad than my horse them, J « down | dle, gamely holding his own, while the | antelope, with outstretched necks, went at an even, regular galt that offered a strong coutrast to the spring: ing bounds with which a deer run. At last the two leading animals crossed the line of my fight ahead of me; when | pulled short up, leaped from Manitou's back, and blazed Into the band as they went by not forty yards off, aiming well ahead of a fine buck who was on the side nearest me. An antelope’s galt is so even that it | offers a good running mark; and as the | smoke blew off | saw the | over like a rabbit, with beth shoulders | buck roll | broken. | then emptied the Winchester | at the rest of the band, breaking one hind leg of a young buck, Hastily cut. ting the throat of, and opening, the dead buck, 1 again mounted and start | ed off after the wounded one. But, though only on three legs, It went as | having had a good | start; and after following It over a» mile | gave up the pursuit, though | had gained a good deal; for the heat was very great, and I did not deem It well to tire the horse at the beginning of the trip. Returning to the carcass, | cut off the hams and strung them be side the saddle; an antelope In 80 spare that there Is very little more meat on the body, This trick of running In a straight line 1s another of the antelope’s pecul far characteristics which frequently Jead It into danger. Although with so much sharper eyes than a deer, ante lope are In many ways far tugidat unless the whole band | are manoeuvring together, lke al squadron of cavalry under orders, as | has already been spoken of. After securing the buck’'s hams and! head (the latter for the sake of the! horns, which were unusually long and | fine), I pushed rapidly on without stop ping to hunt, to reach some large creek | which should contain both wood and! water, for even in summer a fire adds | greatly to the comfort and cosiness of | a night camp, When the sun had] nearly set we went over a divide and! came fu sight of a creek fulfilling the | Yi Nearer and nearer we came. required conditions. It wound its through & valley of rich bottom la cotton-wood trees of no great height or size growing In thick groves along its banks, while its bed contalned many deep pools of water, some of if fresh and good. | rode into a great bend, with a grove of trees on its rights and containing excellent feed. Mani tou was loosed, with the lariat round his neck, to feed where he wished until I wen' to bed, when he was te be taken to a where the grass was thick and succulent, and tethered out for the night here any amount of wood with which a fire was started for cheerfulness, and some of the coals were soon raked off apart to cook © The horse blanket was spread the ground with the oll skin over it as a bed, underneath a spreading cotton-wood tree, while regular bianket scrved as covering The metal cup was soon fil with water and simmering over the coals te make tea, while an antelope steak was roasting on a forked stick Breaking camp Is a simple operation for one man: and but a few minutes after breakfast Manitou and 1 were off. 1 headed the horse towards the more rolling country where the prairies begin to break off Into the edges of the Bad Lands Several bands of an telope were seen, and I tried one un successful stalk, not being able to come within rifle mange; but towards evening. when only about a mile from a wooded creek on whose banks I In tended to sleep, 1 came across a soll tary buck, just as | was topping the ridge of the last divide As 1 was keeping a sharp lookout at the time, | reined In the horse the In stant the head of the antelope came in sight, and jumping off crept up till 1 could see hit whole body, when I drop ped on my knee and took steady alm He was a long way off (three hundred yards by actual pacing), and not hav ing made out exactly what we were he stood still, looking intently in our direction and broadside to us, I held well over his shoulder, and at the re | | port he dropped like a shot, the ball having broken his neck. It was a very good shot: the best 1 ever made | at antelope, of which game, as already | sald, 1 have killed but very few In-| dividuals. Taking the hams and sad. | dle I rode on down to the creek and again went into camp among timber. | Thus on this trip 1 was never suc cessful in outwitting antelope on the several occasions when I pitted my eraft and skill against thelr wariness and keen senses, always either falllog to pet within range or else missing them; but nevertheless I got two by faking advantage of the stupidity and curiosity which they ocoasionally show, NEXT WEEK: “Hunt- ing The Black-Tailed Deer.’ ’ When the neighbors call at his house place was Yer on the led { When 1 rica! | “I don’t think | day | of beast.” | open, | ped. { untended ov { hard without bite or sup. A Real John Doe, “There goes 4 man who would be | | the city salesman, ly Doe, Doe, and John In the bargain- Moreover, he has a sister Jane, {| I wonder what kind of joke thelr par- | ents were trying to perpetrate on those Doe as a surname | | was bad enough without adding to the tacking on John and Jane. | helpless mortals, offense by first met John Doe 1 didn’t { take hls name seriously. 1 thought { the man who Introduced us was en- Joying a little pleasantry at my ex- pense or maybe at the expense of John | not | | his chair, began to hobble backward. Doe, 1 smile, “You don't belleve it,’ he rgld, unfortunately it is true. { mous Doe.’ smiled. John Doe did ‘but I afi the fa. “Later T met his sister Jane and the | particular Doe family. | rest of that { They assured me that there are a num | ber of Does In town. I presume there are, but I trust that In most cases the {old folks had sense enough not to | christen thelr offspring John and Jane." New York Press. The Moor and His The horsemastership primitive and entirely Horse. of the Moors is ruccessful. A Moor never walks when he can ride | {and never by any chance gets off to { ease his beast, How a Moorish pony would have chuckled at the meaning cava He would have sald to himself: mach of animals that cap't carry fifteen stone fifteen hours a I must be a really superior kine The Moorish (and Goumier) horse always spends his nights in the He Is never groomed or clip His youth is passed wandering er the vast fields. When in work ho gets all the barley he wants at night and a drink before his feed In the evening, From 7a. m. to 7 p. m. he expects to work and to work His saddle is a wooden superimposed on at least half a dozen folded bLiankets, the thickness of which often reaches six inches, and be never gets a sore back ~JLondon Spectator. free He Got the Ticket. “Seamen's return” tickets are issued by most British rallways at seaport towns to sallors at reduced rates. 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