Show < I I A IWO4YrlMOUcPA1N GIRL I Mildred Bevliifjlons Account of aLong I a-Long Shot at an Antelope Mildred Bevington a Rocky Mountain I girl living in Wyoming on the border oJ Jacksons Hole has recently been successful I suc-cessful at hunting game which men usually usu-ally find hard to get says the New York I Sun Her rifle is a new Sharpless powder using 30calibro capon and with i she has killed half adozen blacktailed deer in I a week She still hunts the deer and wearsbloomers The bul i wears blomers while hunting bulI lets she uses are soft ribsed so that when I they hit a beAstvfhey mushroom and I I I i spread but until theyare half an inch I I or more across Not one of the dee that I she has hit has rim more than 20 yards and usually the c have died before they i I had gone ten rods She finds antelope II j hunting the best sport of all and she I writes to a New York friend I want to tell you about an antelope I shot a week ago I took my pony and i went away up above the ranch tethered it out and then went along a little bluff I to where I could look off across the open I country for a long way I toOk out my glacs and looked but I couldnt see a I I single thing Then I wet pn a ways i and looked again I had been looking I for pel haps an hour and a half when I j I happened tot sec a glimmer of something I i i over a lIttle hummock not more than 100 j yards away I was jut a little speck of I I brown that I had seen and I wasnt sure I I Id seen anything but I cocked my rifle I and waited I It was anything knew i I i woud come in sight 200 or 250 yards away 1 and then I might accidentally hit it If I I tried hard enough It seemed so long j I waiting there that I guessed I hadnt I seen anything then up went something I on the rising ground Another jump and an antelope wa in sight followed by four others I tried to catch sight at one I I but ther were so small In the s hts looked like 1ttle bits of rabbits Pretty I soon I pulled the rigger the next I i moment they were gone I felt like cry j ling You know if Id only seen them on i the firs rise In time Id have had a lot I better chance But I cut in another shell so that my I rife would be fully loaded and waited for them to come up on the rise beyond that 400 or 500 yards away Pretty soon they came up and I shot airaln it was like shooting at a mouse I shot again then I noticed that only four were Insight In-sight and the other one must have either J 1 turned off to one side orrand then Iran I I-ran over the first rise and up to the too or the one on which Id shot at the antelope I ante-lope first and there he lay as dead as ever an animal was and it was a beauty too The bullet had gone into the back of Its hfrd and torn a fearful hole to Inches higher and I would have missed I sure nun |