I50 SPORT. 



Strides. Arrived at the lower ledge of rocks, extreme 

 caution is of course necessary, as we cannot tell how 

 short a distance they may have run down before 

 stopping, and they may be close to us. Armed 

 with my toy, I go first, avoiding every loose stone 

 as if it were a red-hot iron, and raising my head 

 by slow inches over each successive ridge ; at last 

 my outspread hand, extended backwards, warns my 

 followers that I have them in sight. I remain 

 motionless, but taking in at a glance, and with 

 rapid intuition, all the surroundings. Then I lower 

 my head as gradually as I had raised it and beckon 

 up the old hunter, show him the deer, and indicate 

 by a motion of the hand the course I mean to 

 pursue. He, after grave contemplation, and testing 

 the wind by tearing out recklessly a few of his 

 scanty hairs, assents to my plan, and after retiring 

 a short distance we make a flank march, which, 

 avoiding an exposed plain in our front, brings us 

 to a lower cluster of rocks towards which the 

 deer had seemed to be feeding. It is rather close 



