some distance from the rambling 

 log " shack " and its cluster of one- 

 room log cabins that formed Pine 

 Cone Lodge, the Tevi, Nimrod and 

 I spent the afternoon in target 

 practice, for later when we are in 

 game country we could not be bang- 

 ing guns and disturbing all the game 

 within ten miles. 



Nimrod does not shoot except with 

 the camera, gave it up long ago. 

 He hunts the animals longer and 

 harder than any to study them. I 

 had one rifle and the Tevi had six 

 "shooting irons/' Not that the Tevi 

 are so bloodthirsty but Bobbie Tevis 

 attended to the equipment and Bob- 

 bie has theories. Everything he has, 

 Sally must have; it easily resulted in 

 an arsenal, two rifles, two shotguns, 

 a Mauser and a twenty-two for small 

 things ; and Sally industriously hunts 

 and shoots when Bobbie hunts and 

 shoots, wears waterproof boots like 

 his and a hat like his, and is also in 

 grey-brown clothes the colour of the 

 woods. A red shirt waist (red is 

 Sally's colour), independently pur- 

 chased, was left behind. 



"Bobbie was afraid the game 



