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length. The bullet had hit him in the back ribs, 

 and, as it was on the left, it was the second barrel 

 that had caused his death. This shows the killing 

 power of a 12-bore rifle. 



I sent for the bullock -cart, and caused it to be 

 tipped up close to the bull. Even then it took the 

 united efforts of all the beaters, a dozen men, to get 

 it into the cart. We then went off to our breakfast. 



In the afternoon we beat out the jungle I had 

 traversed six weeks before, but with no result. At 

 the far end of it we had our tonga waiting. The 

 road in proved a bad one ; we had a miserable pair 

 of ponies, and it was long after dark before we got 

 home. 



Of course, I was glad my guest should have some 

 luck, but it certainly was a fair example of the irony 

 of sport. The very brute after whom I had toiled so 

 long on a hot day, falls to the rifle of another, who had 

 only walked an hour or so on a cool winter morning 

 to get him. On the whole, I always look back to it 

 as an instance of very hard luck. 



