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Deciding to try again he began a retrograde move- 

 ment, although he ran the risk of frightening 

 away the whole band. He felt, however, that if he 

 missed a lamb this time he would have great diffi- 

 culty in getting so close to one again. Crawling 

 slowly up another ravine, he got sight of an old ewe 

 and a lamb. They were just what he wanted, but 

 they were over two hundred yards off and there was 

 no possible way of getting closer. He determined to 

 let them go, and crawled back to the woods and went 

 up another ravine. He had crawled about two 

 hundred yards when two sheep fed along the head of 

 the ravine. The naturalist flattened himself to the 

 ground, fearful that he had been seen. The animals 

 fed in almost the same place for fully an hour, 

 and the hunter was just beginning to feel that he 

 would have to move even at the risk of scaring away 

 the whole band, when they went around a knoll. 



Crawling to the head of the ravine Dyche carefully 

 lifted his head, but there was nothing in sight. 

 Waiting a few minutes he crawled out on the grassy 

 slope, hiding himself as much as possible, flattening 

 himself to the ground. His movement was evidently 

 seen by some watchful sheep, for he suddenly heard 

 a tremendous rushing of the frightened animals, and 

 jumping to his feet saw sheep everywhere going at 

 full speed. The Winchester was trained at the flying 

 animals, and an old ewe received the first shot. 

 Without waiting to see the effect of the shot, another 

 ball was sent after a lamb that was just going over 

 a knoll. The ewe made a few jumps and dropped, 

 and fifty yards over the knoll the lamb lay dead. 



