which is, at this season of the year,
about 100 feet wide. AVe stopped our
team by the fence about sixty rods
from the corner and the antelope con
tinued his morning walk apparently
unalarmed. By waling 15 or 20 min
utes for it to get lighter so we could
see the sights on our trusty repeating
rifles with which we were all armed,
: one of us might easily have made a
sneak on him and killed him, but no,
we were out for some fun whether we
| got an antelope or not. “ Morg ” our
! captain elec who by the way had
I served a term in the regular army, said,
“ Let us form a skirmish line from
fence to fence and charge on him, he
can.t gel through the wire fence.”
Agreed. Ed. look the extreme left,
Morg. next, then Charlie, while the ex
treme right was occupied by your cor
respondent. W e mode a far ward march:
The stars were yet shining. With
this formidable array how could he es
cape becoming “our meat” From 40
to 60 rounds of cartridges ready to go
off whenever we pleased to work the
lever. We coulo now plainly see him
rushing frantically back and forth in
the corner and hear him uttering re
peatedly a peculiar note which I shall
not soon forget, a sound midway be
tween a snort and a whistle, and pe
culiar to the antelope when he is corn
ered and very much frightened. He
now made an effort to get by us. Up
he came along the fence. He appeared
to come as if shot out of a gun. How
beautiful he did look. It seemed a
pity to shoot at him. Five shots were
fired. Each shot, I think, increased
his speed till he was well by us. Then
he bounded more leisurely out into the
pasture among the sage, and we could
see him join four of his companions.
