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the move. Twenty minutes forty fifty minutes 

 at last we are there, but it was good climbing to ac- 

 complish it in that time. Just above where we stood 

 an isolated crag rose from the steep side of the moun- 

 tain. " There you will take your stand/' said Neuner ; 

 " you have a good view below and above you, and if 

 the buck is not gone he will be sure to pass down 

 here when he hears footsteps coming up the other 

 side. Look ! you see those loose stones : he will cross 

 those, and you can fire as is most convenient, either 

 then or as he passes lower down. But all that you 

 know without my telling you ; so clamber up and 

 choose your place, and keep a sharp look-out, for by 

 this time my comrade will be on the move." And 

 thus saying he left me, to take his stand somewhat 

 higher, nearer the summit. 



With my heels well in the earth, so as not to slip 

 forward, I sat down, rifle in hand, where I could com- 

 mand the depth immediately below on my right hand, 

 and at the same time see far up the mountain indeed 

 nearly to the sky-line. I was gloriously enthroned. 

 To my left the piled-up mountains, grey or snow- 

 covered, with the magnificent Zug Spitz forming the 

 last outwork of the impassable barrier, and the peaks 

 of all just veiled with a thinly -woven cloud ; before me 

 the whole declivity, with broken rocks and precipices 

 and green bushes, stretching downwards to the vale ; 

 Farchant, with its red church-spire, its cottages, and 

 road and river ; while further off across the pasturage 

 was Garmisch, at the foot of the Kramer. To the 



