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Saunders was very pleased with this head, 

 and said that, although in the course of his long 

 experience he had seen a few stags with some- 

 what longer horns or more points, he had never 

 yet seen a handsomer all-round specimen. I at 

 once sent him back to camp to fetch my camera 

 and call John Wells to help cut up the stag. 

 Whilst he was away another stag with a small 

 head came out of the forest and walked along 

 the water's edge till it was just opposite to me. 

 It then lay down on the mud within two hundred 

 yards of where I was sitting on the body of the 

 dead giant. 



Presently Saimders and Wells came paddling 

 towards this young stag in the Canadian canoe, 

 and it was most amusing to watch the play of 

 its varying emotions as it gazed at the unwonted 

 sight. Fear and curiosity both possessed its 

 soul, and as the canoe advanced it kept alter- 

 nately advancing towards it and then trotting 

 away along the shore. It let my men land 

 within a hundred yards of it, and all the time 

 we were photographing, and afterwards skinning 

 and dismembering the old stag, it remained 



