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fire Dr. S spoke of his great wish to kill a 



caribou. 



"Now," he said to old Bazil, "You bring me 

 up close to one and I kill it, I'll give you a bonus 

 of f 10." 



Several times next day during the still-hunt 

 old Bazil would leave the doctor to await his 

 return, while he would go forward reconnoiter- 

 ing carefully so there might be no mistake. At 

 last he came back with the glad tidings to the 

 doctor, that he had seen two caribou not far in 

 advance of where they now were. 



When it got to sneaking after Baz^l through 

 the last hundred yards to the few trees at the 

 extreme edge of the forest, the doctor's heart 

 was beating with such thumps that he thought 

 the noise would start the game. The doctor at 

 last reached the guide in the fringe of trees. 

 Bazil told him that one of the deer was stand- 

 ing up, broadside on, while a little to the right 

 was the second one lying down. The standing 

 one being the larger of the two, and the only one 

 having horns, was for the doctor to shoot, while 

 the guide would take a pot-shot at the other. 

 The doctor flattened out on his stomach and 

 wriggled a few feet further, saw the deer 

 through the branches, took aim and waited for 

 Bazil to count the agreed one, two, three. 



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