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dred yards off, but I determined to have a 

 crack at him, and, throwing my rifle up, 1 took 

 aim just behind the lower part of the shoulder. 

 Mine was an old-fashioned, long, hunting-rifle, 

 with steel barrel, carrying a ball forty to the 

 pound. At the shot the deer made a buck-jump 

 full ten feet into the air, and bounded away. I 

 thought 1 had missed him, but my partner, on 

 coming to the spot where he had stood, and looking 

 narrowly around, thought not, and determined to 

 follow his tracks. The fact was, as he told me 

 soon afterwards, that he saw a tinge of blood 

 upon the snow on the other side of the place 

 where the deer had stood when I shot at him, 

 and concluded that the ball had gone through 

 him. He soon found that the deer straddled in 

 his tracks and spread his hoofs, and then he 

 knew he was badly wounded. The buck was 

 found dead two hundred yards from where he 

 was when 1 shot at him. The ball had gone 

 clean through him, and also through his heart, 

 after which he ran two hundred yards. I did 

 not hunt deer much at that time, but I was 

 soon a good shot with the rifle, and have killed 

 a running deer with it. 



I afterwards became acquainted with a man 



