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"'hill. We watch them carefully. The stag carries on his 

 " handsome head a trophy worthy to be won. They saunter 

 " quietly round the crest of the knoll, evidently contemplating a 

 " bask in the morning sun. On their disappearance we prepare to 

 " start, but hold ! what's this ? look ! what are those things, look- 

 " ing like logs, lying near the trees to the left, and one here away, 

 " some forty or fifty yards nearer ? By Jove ! they are deer ! 

 " Again we raise the glass. One, two, three, four, five ! all hinds, 

 " The shikaree whispers, " look to the right, where the stag was." 

 " By the powers, he is right !,. three more ! but not an antler 

 " among the lot. All too in our very path to stalk the stag. What 

 " shall we do ? But see ! the nearest hind is looking our way ; 

 " perhaps she has caught the sheen of our telescope and is alarmed. 

 " She looks hard and long. Presently she gets up, stretches her- 

 " self, and taking another searching look, she walks calmly towards 

 " the rest. There is no outward or visible sign that we can detect, 

 " yet one after another they all rise no alarm, apparently, but in 

 " less time than is taken in reading these few lines, the whole herd 

 " has passed like shadows, and disappeared in the sholah near at 

 " hand. Now is the time to make tracks, and away we go, walk- 

 " ing swiftly but silently, and reach the spot where the deer 

 " vanished from our sight. They entered the sholah on the left. 

 " The stag we hope is down in his couch, to the right hand, close 

 " to a wood on that side. Strange, that as we pass the point 

 " where the deer had disappeared, not a sound is heard. It is 

 " marvellous how the large animals of the forest can move so 

 " quietly ; even the lordly elephant when aware of danger moves 

 " through the forest noiseless as the velvet-footed cat. We 

 " breathe again. Thank goodness they have gone. We creep on, 

 " for we have now reached the turning point of the knoll round 

 " which we purpose stealing to meet our stag. Cautiously we 

 " advance. By Heavens ! more deer ! Another pair of ears, and 

 " beyond still another ! Again we drop in the grass, and watch. 

 " They are couched, and though not fity yards away, know nothing 

 " of our presence. The movement of these deer will surely alarm 

 " the stag. What can we do ? Silently we crawl under the outer- 

 " most bushes of the wood. They happen to be the myrtle, mis- 



