Four-footed Americans and their kin . re ripe and fall off as the leaves do, leavinga little scar through which the next years antlerssprout. There is one animal that you will hear about soon,whose horns are stepping-stones between the hollowhorns and the solid antlers. Tins is the Antelope, whobelongs to the Deer branch of the meat family, andlike other Deer sheds its pronged horns, which are stillpartly hollow like those of a cow. What do you call them if they are half horn andhalf antlers ? asked Rap. The Wise Men call them prongs, and sportsmengive the Antelope the name of Pronghorn. Meanw
Four-footed Americans and their kin . re ripe and fall off as the leaves do, leavinga little scar through which the next years antlerssprout. There is one animal that you will hear about soon,whose horns are stepping-stones between the hollowhorns and the solid antlers. Tins is the Antelope, whobelongs to the Deer branch of the meat family, andlike other Deer sheds its pronged horns, which are stillpartly hollow like those of a cow. What do you call them if they are half horn andhalf antlers ? asked Rap. The Wise Men call them prongs, and sportsmengive the Antelope the name of Pronghorn. Meanwhile Mr. Blake was unfastening a little orna-ment that hung to his watch-chain, which he handed toDodo, saying, — Here is something I found the other day that Ithought was lost. Guess what that is, little daughter. THBEE HARDY MOUNTAINEERS 253 Its a long, very big dog tooth, said Dodo, lookingcarefully at the yellow bit of gold-capped ivory in herpink palm. Wrong ; it is a tooth of the Grizzly that didnt biteme! XVIII ON THE PLAINS. REPARATIONS for the Christmasparty were keeping everybody busyat the farm. Many mysteriousboxes and bundles kept arrivingfrom the city, but Dr. Roy had in-sisted that the young folks shouldmake some of the gifts with theirown hands. Olive, who was veiydeft with her fingers, had littletrouble in devising pretty anduseful things, but with Dodo and Nat it was a differentmatter. A fine, warm flannel gown was under constructionfor Raps mother ; a like one, only of a gayer pattern,was already finished for Mammy Bun — that is, all butsewing on the buttons. Mrs. Blake had cut out thevarious garments, Olive doing the making, assisted instraight seams and easy places by Dodo, to whom sew-ing was a very solemn business. In fact, she held herneedle as tight as it she expected it to jump out of herfingers, and tugged at the thread as if it had the strengthof a clothes-line, —a habit that caused many knots,broken ends, and, I must confess, tears. I think Na
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