ant'lope

Updated: June 10, 2025

Ben had never heard of an antelope, though he had of a gazelle; and if I had called it by this name he might have agreed with me. An "ant'lope," however, he knew nothing about; and as his hunter-pride would have been offended by contradiction, I allowed him to persist in calling it a deer. "Ay, ay! it be a deer, Will," he said, emphatically, as we walked away from it "nothin' else, my boy.

Mayne Reid - Ran Away to Sea