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stayed at this horse-ranch overnight, and did 

 not get back to our ranch until the following 

 evening about supper- time. 



It leaked out that the cowboys had fairly 

 screamed with delight when the truth was 

 known, and would rather have been dis- 

 charged than help the foreman pack in the 

 five deer. He did pack them, however, in 

 good faith; and both he and the cow-punchers, 

 now that they had fresh meat, spared me 

 their jokes, and for several days did not try 

 to lend me their pitching ponies. 



Thus ended a most eventful hunt; and al- 

 though it was unquestionably a very excep- 

 tional piece of good luck to have killed five 

 deer neatly, still it is none the less a fact that 

 with a thirty-eight-caliber rifle I have always 

 done the best work. With a fifty-caliber I 

 have shot deer in their vital parts and then 

 had them run great distances, whereas with 

 the smaller bullet, when properly hit, they 

 would almost invariably double up on the 

 spot. I can give no explanation that will 

 help to determine why the smaller-bored rifle 

 has always, with me, been the most efficient. 



Bronson Rumsey. 



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