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65 inches for those who follow and would defend 

 such practices there is no way out of a dilemma, 

 they must either claim to have brought the art 

 of judging distance to an impossible degree of 

 perfection, or else must do a lot of unjustifiable 

 maiming. 



I therefore, after much anxious deliberation, 

 determined to wait till the sheep should shift their 

 ground. And yet it was tantalising 



" That deep romantic chasm which slanted 

 Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! " 



If it had only been a little less wide ! 



They lay so close together that a shot at the 

 biggest, if it missed him, would almost certainly 

 have got one either above or below him. 



We watched the forty for hour after hour ; but 

 those hoary old patriarchs were taking life easily, 

 and had no intention of moving till the cool of the 

 evening. Many times during that long day I 

 crawled up to the telescope I had fixed on the 

 ridge line ; many times I debated which of those 

 splendid heads I should take when the time came. 

 At each crawl, my shikari implored me to take off 

 my sun hat, to which he had the strongest objec- 

 tion. My hat, however, was covered with the best 

 of invisible shikar cloths, while my head, well, 

 since youth it has been in that condition when 



