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inner went ok. - not without Running forward. I found the first one dead, the ballet - baring gone through him lengthwise; the other did not seem satisfied oven yet and kept hanging round In the distance for some minutes, looking at na. I bad thus bagged one prong-bock, as the net outcome of the expenditure of fourteen cartridges. This waa certainly not good shooting; but neither was it as bad as it would seem to the man Inexperienced in antelope hunting. WING'

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the wide plains where

the props buck dwells , the hunter must sometimes fsce thirst; as well 'as are and frost. The only time I ever really suffered from thirst was

(while hunting prong-buck. It was late to the summer. I was -fwith the ranch wagon on the way to fain! a round-up, and as we were out f meat I started for a day's hunt. "After two or three hours' ride, up minding coeUes, and through the

rched desolation of patches of Bad

I reached the rolling prairie.

lie heat and drought had long burned

short grass dull brown; the bot-

of what had been pools were

, norered with hard, dry, cracked earth, phe day was cjoadless, and the beat feppnsslv. There were many ; antelope, but I got only one shot, breaking S hock's lag; and though I followed it or a cosy is of hours I could not over-

ike. it. By this time it wss late In lie afternoon, and I was far away

m the river; so I poshed for a creek.

the bed of which I had always

found peels of water, especially to

wards the head, as Is usual with plains svstereourses. To my chagrin, howfcver, they all proved to be dry; and though I rode up the creek bed tofevaid the head, carefully searching for liny sign of water. Bight closed on me before I found any. For two or three pours X stumbled on, leading my horse. In my fruitless search; then a tumble lever a cut bank in the dark warned dm that P might as well stay where I Iwaa for the rest of the warm night. (Accordingly I unsaddled the horse, ind tied him to a sage brash after awhile he began to feed on the dewy press. At first I was too thirsty to Bleep. Finally I fell Into a sumber, fend when I awoke at dawn X felt no

cnim. tror an nour or two more i con tinned my Htrch for water In the rreek bed; then abandoned It and rode straight for the river. By the time fcre retched tt my thirst had come back with redoubled force, my mouth Was parched, and the horse was in ftralte as bade plight; we rushed down to the brink, and It seemed as If we icould neither of us ever drink our fill of the tepid, rather muddy water. Of rourse this experience was merely unpleasant; thirst Is not a source of real (danger in the plains country proper, Mvhereas la the hideous deserts that - extend from southern Idaho through K7tah and Nevada to Arizona, it ever snenaces with death the- hunter and explorer. In the plains the weather Is apt to e In extremes; the heat Is tropical, the cold arctic, and the droughts are relieved by furious floods. These are generally more severe and lasting in the spring, after the melting of the now; and fierce local freshets follow the occasional cloudbursts. The large rivers then become wholly Impassable, and even the smaller are formlelable obstacles. It is not easy to get - rattle across a swollen stream, where the current runs like a turbid mill-race gyver the bed of shifting quicksand, Dnce five of na took a thousand head kf trail steers across the Little Missouri when the river was up, and it (was no light task. The muddy current (was ; boiling past the banks covered (with driftwood and foul yellow froth, and the frightened cattle shrank from entering It. At lsst, by hard tiding, (with much loud shouting and swinging of ropes, we got the leaders in, and the whole herd followed. After them are went In our torn, the horses swimming at one moment, and the next staggering and - floundering through the quicksand. I was riding my pet (ratting horse, Muley, which has the torovoking habit of making o great bounds where the water Is just not sleep enough for swimming; once be Almost unseated me. Some of the cattle were caught by the currents and rolled over and over; most of these we (were able, with the help of our ropes, to; put on their feet again; only one iwaa drowned, or rather choked in a quicksand. Many swam down stream, and In consequence struck a difficult landing, where the river ran under a rut bank; these we had to haul out ftrlth our ropes. Although I have often had a horse IBown in quicksand or In crossing a bwollen river, and have had to work bard to save him, I have never myself lost one under such circumstances. BTet once I saw the horse of one of my tnen drown under him directly in front of the ranch house, while he was trying to cross the river. This was ta early spring, soon after the Ice had broken.

, When making tons; wagon trips ever he great plains, antelope often offer he only source of meat supply, save for occasional water fowl, sage fowl, fend prairie fowl the sharp-tailed Brattle fowl, be It understood. ' This i the characteristic grouse of the cat lie conn try; the true prairie fowl Is a bird of the farming land farther east Towards the end of the summer of S3 X found It necessary to travel from ay ranch to the Black Hills, some two hundred miles south. The ranch wag-

nea us an aay ax a raca, pace, aiugief oot or slow lope, varied by rapid galloping when we made long circles after game; the trot, the favorite gait with eastern park-riders,' Is disliked by all peoples who have to do much of their life-work In the saddle. The first day's ride was not attractive. . : The beat was Intense and the dust stifling, as we bad to drive some loose horses for the first few miles, and afterwards to ride up and down the sandy river bed, where the cattle had gathered, to look over some young steers we hsd put on the range the preceding spring. Whenjwe did camp It was by a pool of stagnant water. In a creek bottom, and the mosquitoes were a torment Nevertheless, as evening fell. It was pleassnt to climb a little knoll nearby and gaxe at the rows of strangely colored buttes, grassdad, or of bare earth and scoria, their soft : reds and purples showing - as through a base, and their irregular outlines gradually losing their sharpness In the fading twilight ' My foreman and I usually rode far off to one side of the wagon, looking out for antelope. Of these we at first saw few, but they grew more plentiful ss we journeyed onward, approaching a big, scantily wooded creek, where I had found the prong-horn abundant In previous seasons. They were very wary and watchful whether going singly or in small parties, and the lay of the land made it exceedingly difficult to get within range. The last time I had hunted in this neighborhood was in the fall, at the height of the rutting

on went wtth me. driven by an allround plainsman, a man of iron nerves and varied past, the sheriff of our county. Be was an old friend of mine; at one time I had served as deputy-sheriff for the northern end of the county. In the wagon we carried our food and camp kit, and oar three rolls of bedding, each wrapped In a thick, nearly waterproof canvas sheet: we had a tent, bat we never needed it The load netac light, the wagon was drawn by bet a spaa of harass, a pair of wild runawaya, touch, and good travellers. My foreman and I rode beside the wagon on oar wtoy, nasaofc 5MjGg93at .Tb-zjegr

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They ttood aide by tide facing me, and . remained motionless. When fresh meat is urgently needed, and when time Is too short, the hunter who is after antelope in an. open flattish country must risk many long shots. In no other kind of hunting is there so much long-distance shooting. Throwing the buck into the wagon we .continued .our journey across the

nrairle.. no loncer following any road.

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season. TTong-Docas, even iiiuir uau other game, seem fairly maddened by erotic excitement At the time of my former hunt they were in ceaseless motion; each master buck being incessantly occupied in herding his harem, and fighting would-be rivale, while single bucks chased single does as grayhounds chase hares, or else, if no does were In sight, from sheer excitement ran to and fro as if crazy, racing at full speed In. one direction, then halt-! lng, wheeling, and tearing back again Just as hard as they could go. At this time, however, the rut was still some weeks off, and all the bucks had to do waa to feed and keep a lookout for enemies. Try my best I could not get within less than four or five hundred yards, and though I took a number of shots at these, or even longer distances, I missed. If a man is out merely for a day'a hunt and has all the time he wishes, he win not care the game and waste cartridges by shooting at such long ranges, preferring to spend half a day or more in patient waiting and careful stalking; but If he is traveling, and la therefore cramped for time, he most take his chances, even at the cost of burning a good deal of powder, v. ' yI was finally helped to success by a characteristic freak of the game I wae following. No other animate are aa keen-sighted, or are normally as wary aa prong-horns; bat no others are so whimsical and odd in their behavior at times, or eo snbpect to fits of the most stupid curiosity and panic. Late In the afternoon, on topping a rise I saw two good bucks racing off about three haadrrd yards to one side; I prang to the ground, ana area tnree hots at them In vain, aa they ran like quarter-horses until they disappeared over a alight swelL In a minute, how-

back they came, suddenly ap-

over the , crest of - the : aasae

sweB. Isamedlately in front of me.

and, aa I afterwards found by

some three hundred and thirty way.) They stood aide by aide

see, nod remained mottontosa, unheeding -tho crack of .the Winchester; I

at the right-hand one, but a

of the kind, at ouch a dia

ls natber dUecult. and It

not until X fired for the fourth

that ho sank . back oat ' of sight X could not tell whether I bad kXiedhim.

.and bel're sunset jolted down towards

the big creek for which we had been heading. There , were many waterholes therein, and timber of considerable size; box alder and ash grew here and , there in clumps and fringes, beside the serpentine curves of the nearly dry' torrent bed, the growth being thickest under the shelter of the occasional low bluffs. ' We drove down to a heavily grassed bottom, near a deep, narrow pool, with, . at one end, that rarest of luxuries in the plains country, a bubbling spring of pure, cold water. With plently of wood, delicious water,- ample feed for the horses, and fresh meat we bad every comfort and luxury incident to camp life In good weather. The bedding was tossed out on a smooth spot beside the wagon; the horses were watered and tethered to picket pins where the feed wss best; water waa fetched from the spring; a deep hole was dug for the fire, and the grass roundabout carefully . burned off; and in a few moments the bread waa baking ' in the Dutch oven, the potatoes were boiling, antelope steaks were stealing in the frying-pan, and the kettle waa ready for the tea. After sapper, eaten with the relish known well to every hardworking and successful hunter, we sat for half an hear or so round the fire.

and then toned In under -the blankets

and listened to the wailing, of the coyotes until we fell sound asleep. We determined to stay in this camp all day, so as to try and kill another prong-buck, as we would soon be past the good bunting grounds. I did not have to go fsr for my game next morning, for soon after breakfast while sitting on my canvas beg cleaning my

rifle, the sheriff suddenly called to me

that a bunch of antelope were coming towards na. Sure enough there they

were, tear in umber,; rather over barf

a mile off, on the neat bench of the prairie, two or three bundled "yards back of the creek, leisurely feeding In

oar direction, v In a minute or two

they were oat of eight and I Instantly

ran along the creek towards them for a quarter of a mile, and then crawled an a abort shallow coolie, close to the

bead of which they sseased Hkdy to pass. .When nearly at the end I can-'

ttoosly raised my hatlesa head, peered through some atrajczUna! weeds, and

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Takin is a Strange Buffalo Just Imported From Orient

New. York, June 19.-Strange to eon-.

template is the Chinese takin, first of:

its kind ever brought to too shores of the United States, , which, yesterday was placed on exhibition staffed, la the American Museum' of Natural History. As far as know to Mason Mitchell, one of the American consuls

in China, who presented the specimen to the institution, he is the only Cau

casian who has ever seen one on its native crags. Mr. Mitchell Is a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and therefore

presumably free from even a tendency to exaggeration in his nature descriptions. ;'-v;-' i The takin or Chinese buffalo, which now adorns the museum, is about the size of a Jersey cow and it can not be said that he bears" much resemblance to the American bison. His body and legs suggest both, the antelope ind the goat, his back is like that of a yak and his head, which is surrounded by curving horns, has the

He vii iDIg fellow, about a hundred and twenty yards off; the others, a dee and two kids, were to front. As I lifted myself on ray elbows he halted and tamed : hie raised head towards mo; the sunlight shone bright on bis soppie. Tlsjorone body with Its TraTS'fr'f of ahaiply contrasted brown : and white. I patted trigger, and away he went; ant I could see that hw race was nearly ran, and he fell after going a tew hundred yards.

bulging noso which suggests that of the moose. The takin has hoofs that are parted and has ways are like those of the goat He Is a rather heavy animal, yet he spends bin time la the western mountains of Sao Chuaa province, where he gets about among the crags as lightly as hoes the big horn of the Rockies. He is strong and able bodied and in a fight can give a good account of himself. ' .. The hide of the . takin which waa sent here dry and as hard as a board and Mr. Flgglns. chief taxidermist of the museum had a long struggle with It in getting it in proper form, but by following the hair patterns he has been enabled to present the takin with all the distinction which aa animal of such complicated anatomy deserves. . The hoofs of the creature are very hard and have grooves and scratches in them which indicate that he was well accustomed to making his agile way over the sharp rocks in. his native province.'..: . -v. Mr. Mitchell who makes the presentation was formerly aa actor and servw ed with the Rough Riders under Col. Roosevelt, by whom he was later placed in the diplomatic service. Ho has sent to the American museum several rare ant""1 which he obtained in remote parts of the empire.

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