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Updated: June 11, 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.
"It so happened that none of the hunters, at the settlement had ever practised this method; but as most of them had succeeded, by some means or other, in decoying and capturing several swans by other means, my hunter-pride was touched, and I was most anxious to show that I could kill swans as well as they.
Not without a certain feeling of chagrin did the young hunter perceive that the opening was empty: for, to say nothing of the annoyance he felt on not being able to procure a joint of venison for breakfast, he had been flattering himself that, from his superior knowledge of the ground, he would be the first to find the material for their matutinal meal about which he had some little feeling of hunter-pride and rivalry.
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