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sent the ball and killed him on the spot. The mag- 

 nificent deer had been ill-used ; for not only had his 

 antler been shot away by a powerful bullet, but there 

 was a smaller one lodged in his flank, from the 

 internal mischief of which he had become a mere 

 skeleton. " Sad work," I said to myself; " and no man 

 ought to shoot at a deer in the forest without a blood- 

 hound within call." 



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