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are now lying to me ; for otherwise could such 

 caution and strategy be thrown away ? It was long 

 before I could be convinced that I had been beaten ; 

 for to convince a man against his will is a hard 

 matter indeed, but at last I was so. The cause of 

 my indescribable disappointment I at length sought 

 with my glass all over the middle distance. For a 

 long time I was unrewarded in my search, but at 

 length I discovered the truant koodoo more than a 

 thousand yards off, standing with the full light of 

 the early sun upon him (for the position he had 

 selected was the summit of an adjoining ridge). No 

 possible situation could have been better chosen to 

 show the bonnie beast to perfection than the one 

 it had taken, or, let me further add, to increase my 

 own exasperation. 



Through the medium of my glass I could almost 

 with certainty judge the size, weight, condition, and 

 perfections of the horns of the animal that had 

 outwitted me. More, I believe mind, kind reader, 

 I only say believe I saw a twinkling in the grand 

 old bull's voluminous expressive eyes which said, 

 "If you want to circumvent me you must get up 

 earlier in the morning." Heaven forbid that I 



