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BIG GAME SHOOTING 



If age and feebleness come, shall there be no satisfaction 

 to the old hunter in remembering the ibex he outclimbed, the 

 stag whose senses were not keen enough to detect the stealthy 



When the light wanes 



approach of those now clumsy feet tottering to their rest ; the 

 grim foe, tiger or grizzly, upon whom his worn-out eyes once 

 gazed without blenching, measuring the shot calmly, upon the 

 success of which hung his life or the beast's ? 



