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ing quite leisurely, and seemed to be in an ex- 

 cellent place for a stalk. 



The hill on which he stood faced another 

 gulch, running at right angles to the one we 

 had recently crossed, and the wind was blowing 

 directly from the beast to us ; but as he was some 

 way to our right, we trusted to being able to 

 work round and approach him from the brow 

 of the hill. When we arrived at the top of the 

 rise we could not see the caribou anywhere. 

 Pat said he must have lain down, as is the habit 

 of these animals, between ten and twelve of a 

 morning, after feeding. We knew that we were 

 within two hundred yards of the place where we 

 had last seen him, but were afraid to commence 

 the descent of the hill lest we should startle our 

 quarry without getting the chance of a shot. So 

 we waited, searching every yard of the ground 

 below us with the glasses. 



Suddenly Pat caught my arm we were lying 

 flat on our faces hidden behind some dwarf tuck 

 bush and pointed and whispered to me to look 

 about forty yards to our left, where he had seen 

 the tip of a moving horn. I could see no horns, 

 nor anything approaching a horn. Pat whispered 

 again that he would whistle gently once whilst I 

 threw a cartridge into the chamber of my rifle 

 and prepared to fire the instant the caribou 

 should rise to his feet. 



A short, sharp whistle broke the silence but 



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