Although pronghorn antelope were abundant and hunted in Indian days, they were extinct in that area by my childhood, so I didn't know what that term meant. I did know "cantaloupe", since we grew and ate a lot of them, but the deer got to them too, so I made that association. And although we were surrounded by rangeland, one of the nearest neighbors up on the hill was the ranger station. It's really fun remembering my own word associations as a preschooler. Perhaps the funniest was hearing in Sunday School the hymn, "Bringing in the Thieves". I couldn't figure out what Church and Police work had in common.
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