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AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI 



frontier, and devoted all my attention to the mighty 

 old sheep beneath us. I must acknowledge this 

 weakness, but the sight of the quarry was too 



WATCHING. 



tempting. Should the animals shift a couple of 

 hundred yards towards us I felt sure of success, 

 and the heads some of them carried were well worth 

 trying for. We had not been an hour watching 

 them when, to my joy, they all got up one after 



