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excessive chiefly to those who are not accustomed 

 actually to count the cartridges they expend, to measure 

 the distances at which they fire, and to estimate for 

 themselves the range, on animals in the field when they 

 are standing or running a good way off. Only one 

 wounded animal got away ; and eight of the animals 1 

 shot had to be finished with one bullet — two in the case 

 of the lioness— as they lay on the groimd. Many of the 

 cartridges expended really represented range-finding. 



