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in behind his ear. As he listened to the falling rocks, 
the ear had been thrown forward; as he fell, the ear 
had swung back to normal position and covered the 
tiny hole made by the full mantled bullet. The 
bullet had come out of his eye, but when I got there 
the eye was closed, so that the point of exit had been 
concealed also. 
One day as I approached the hills, while I was still 
hunting koodoo for my group, I saw in the distance 
four animals which I took to be koodoo. They stood 
on a rock-strewn slope beneath an acacia tree and, as 
there were no horns visible, I assumed that they were 
cows and calves. I required one of each to complete 
my group. I made a careful stalk along the same 
ravine from which I had approached my first koodoo 
and, when I thought that I was at about the right 
point, I peered out and found the animals standing 
where I had seen them first, apparently about 200 
yards away. I fired, and one dropped in his tracks. 
They were startled but had not located my direction 
and ran about confusedly. My second shot dropped 
another and the third shot wounded one which ran 
almost directly toward us. He covered the distance 
in an amazingly short time and went down beneath 
the bush only a little way from me. It was then that 
I came to a realization of what was happening. In- 
stead of being koodoo 200 yards away, these were 
antelope pygmies less than 50 yards away and not 
more than twenty-three inches high at the shoulder. 
I had been completely fooled, but by what? That 
was the question. ! 
