H4 By Mountain, Lake, and Plain 



assistant has displayed such an infinity of care 

 and patience, you have yourself spent, it may 

 be, days in search, ridden many long miles, lain 

 baking for hours under a hot sun. A miss is 

 unthinkable, and yet a moving gazelle is neither 

 a big nor an easy target. 



They come steadily on, and will pass to our 

 right * a lucky omen ! the buck second in the 

 string. Now they have changed their line a shade. 

 Will they pass out of range after all ? No, it is 

 all right, but it will be a long shot. Now the 

 buck's eye is almost visible. How does the verse 

 go? 



" I never nursed a dear gazelle, 



To glad me with its soft black eye, 

 But when it came to know me well, 

 And love me, it was sure to die." 



Well, not sure, perhaps ; but well do our best. 

 Now the gazelle are at the nearest point; every 

 yard farther will make the shot longer. The sight 

 covers the buck covers him almost completely up ! 

 As I am about to shoot he moves behind a bush ; 

 now he is out. Bang ! he is down. That's all 

 right. Ibrahim has seen him drop, and is gallop- 

 ing up to hallal him. So over the gazelle we 

 meet, and tell Ibrahim we have never seen such 



1 It is a favourable omen when an animal presents its right side, 

 and vice versa. 



