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when I heard Yvette screaming frantically
behind me and saw her dashing at
full speed to the left where the antelope
was lying down. I saw the animal
was not dead grazed to his await.
She let me come up and I dismounted
a ready as the animal should run.
There was just one more shell in my
gun, my pockets were empty; it was
the last chance to get the antelope. I
fired again at 50 yards the animal
rolled over dead.
I waited for Yvette together we walked
up to the beautiful orange-yellow form
lying in the growing grass. We both saw
its horns at the same instant and hugged
each other in delight for we had not
known it was a buck. At this time
of the year the bucks are usually alone
and its one will seldom be found
with the does except in the largest herds.
This one was in full summer
pregnancy, its new brain spotless and unworn.
I held Kublai Khan's head while I hoisted
the buck this back and strapped it behind the
saddle. He watched proceedings interestingly
but without a tremor and soon when I
mounted & started off at a trot he paid out
the slightest attention to the head dangling
in his placid, visionary fronted poses.