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getting nearer, so arranged the sight and fired ; but 

 unfortunately, as he was trotting at the time, did not 

 aim sufficiently forward, so that the bullet, which 

 ought to have taken him just behind the shoulder, 

 struck in the middle of his body. He rolled over, 

 raising a cloud of snow, and I thought I had killed 

 him. The rest of the herd bolted off, and turning 

 quickly round a projecting cliff, prevented my 

 obtaining a second shot at them. I reloaded, and 

 with the hunter proceeded towards the fallen stag. 

 When about a hundred yards off, he suddenly 

 sprang up, and bounded off with apparently 

 undiminished vigour. A. second shot finished him, 

 and I had the satisfaction of obtaining this splendid 

 animal. The measurement of his horns is given 

 in the first part of the present article. 



P.S. This head, together with several others, 

 was stuffed by Mr. J. Baker, of Eose Crescent, 

 Cambridge, who, I think, has succeeded extremely 

 well in reproducing the expression peculiar to the 

 animal. 



