. American animal life . $ COYOTE PRONGHORN AND PRAIRIE-DOG. HE beautiful little antelope, or pronghorn as he should rightfully be called,is one of our wild creatures of the West that, like the bison, is rapidly disap-pearing. He is one of the swiftest runners of all our animal people; and itis a good thing that he is, or we might have no pronghorn at all to-day. He belongs to a family all by himself in America, even though he shedshis horns and has to grow a new pair every year just as the other animalpeople of our hoofed family do. Still, his horns are different, for he has oneprong over eac
. American animal life . $ COYOTE PRONGHORN AND PRAIRIE-DOG. HE beautiful little antelope, or pronghorn as he should rightfully be called,is one of our wild creatures of the West that, like the bison, is rapidly disap-pearing. He is one of the swiftest runners of all our animal people; and itis a good thing that he is, or we might have no pronghorn at all to-day. He belongs to a family all by himself in America, even though he shedshis horns and has to grow a new pair every year just as the other animalpeople of our hoofed family do. Still, his horns are different, for he has oneprong over each eye. The Red people tell why this little fellow is different, in one way at least, and they knowit is his own fault. When on the prairies, where the country is very flat, this little animalfriend is very fleet of foot; and the Red people tell of the time, many years ago, when theanimal people and man people were friends. The antelope was visiting the deer in hisrocky home, and some of the little Red people came to play in the forest with the forestpeople
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