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my guide and I should go a little farther on 

 down the main " lead " and allow everything to 

 pass but a stag with a good head. 



We therefore took up a second position on the 

 top of another ridge some three hundred yards 

 farther on. Here we sat until about one o'clock 

 without seeing or hearing anything. By this 

 time the mist had entirely cleared off and it 

 was a bright, sunny day. 



Suddenly we heard a shot not very far away 

 to the left. "That's someone on the next ' lead,' " 

 said my guide ; " Now look out, as the deer 

 may come this way." Some two minutes later 

 I saw about twenty caribou — all does and fawns, 

 so far as I could make out — come trotting into 

 the open and make directly towards the three 

 gunners behind us. I saw two of these men 

 run towards the deer and then sit down and 

 fire into them without visible effect as they 

 trotted past. Soon we saw another herd of 

 does, followed by a stag, coming straight 

 towards where we were sitting ; but the man 

 with the rifle ran in and fired at them when 

 they were still some four hundred yards away 



