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shot. Afterwards I should never kill another 

 animal — unless in self-defence or because I 

 badly lacked meat. However, in the mean- 

 time, like St. Augustine, I knew I should con- 

 tinue certain practices which my conscience 

 reprehended. The hunter's instinct is the one 

 most deeply rooted in the mind of man; it is 

 among those tendencies which persist after the 

 conditions which called them forth have dis- 

 appeared — even from memory. It is the true 

 basis of that original sin over which the theo- 

 logians fumble, for in the absence of other 

 available game men hunt each other. 



But I had, inconintently, to sleep. And 

 hey — for a gallop over the plains in the 



morning. 



