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It was a tempting sight too tempting for the young backwoods hunter to resist. Seizing his rifle, he took after them promising us as he went off a more savoury breakfast than the dry buffalo-meat we were broiling. Soon after, we heard the report of his piece; and, presently, he re-appeared with a dead "prong-horn" upon his shoulders.
Over there is one of the wild gazelles." I followed the direction of her eyes and saw, peering curiously down at us from beyond the top of a little ridge, something like a hundred yards away, the head, horns, and neck of a prong-horn buck, standing facing us, and seeming not much thicker than a knife blade. Her keen eyes caught this first; my own, I fancy, being busy elsewhere.
May we not gently suggest to the reader for his or her consideration that there are human antelopes, so to speak, whose case bears a striking resemblance to the prong-horn of the North American prairie? Dick's horse was no match for the antelope; neither was Crusoe, so they pulled up shortly and returned to their companions to be laughed at.
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