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This gave me a chance to fire three more shots at 

 him. While he was circling around the cow and try- 

 ing to lead her into the safety of the woods, he seemed 

 to say : " You can shoot at me if you like and kill me 

 if you can, but I'll save my frau or perish in the 

 attempt ! " 



And just as soon as he had her headed and started 

 right, then he got away also, both entering the woods 

 to the left. 



Then the question came : What shall we do ? The 

 guide said : " Let's go back to camp and give him a 

 chance to lie down. If he's mortally wounded we'll 

 find him, but I fear you've given him only a flesh 

 wound." We stopped at our fire for the guide to 

 drink his bouillon and then commenced our eight-mile 

 journey to our tent. On the road down, and before 

 we reached the logging camp where we had started 

 the buck deer and the two does the day before, I crept 

 along very cautiously, hoping to catch a sight of the 

 big buck. The road that led by the old camp had a 

 path in which were several long logs leading length- 

 wise from the road right to the camp, and walking on 

 these logs with rubber boots made no noise at all. 

 Suddenly I came upon six deer feeding in and around 

 a lot of raspberry bushes. Four of them were so 

 bunched that I could have placed a bullet which 

 would have gone, possibly, through the whole four, 

 certainly through three of them. But they were all 



