ON PLAIN AND PEAK 



It was not quite agreeable getting back from my 

 "stand" to a sort of sheep-path by which we had 

 ascended the mountain. In one place but some 

 two yards of steep grass-slope separated us from a 

 sheer drop of hundreds of feet, and the thought of 

 what would happen if one d&fslip was not pleasant! 

 It is an old truth in climbing that wherever one can 

 get down (provided one does not jump or drop) one 

 can get up I had hardly noticed this place in 

 ascending ! 



More than one drive is seldom taken in a day, 

 so when the other guns came down we made for 

 home. 



The Prince and young Hochleitner had each shot 

 a doe. "The Sun " had wounded and lost a good 

 buck. The other Imperial keeper had missed a 

 beast, and the Baron had seen nothing within 

 shot. 



Poor old " Sun " ! He was very gloomy about 

 his buck, and the drive generally. 



" Only three chamois in the day ! We ought to 

 have got more," he kept saying. 



But I do not think there was a happier individual 

 in all the Austrian Empire that evening than I ! 



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