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Here, Lightfoot, look at the fine fellow : pull off your cap, 

 and rest the glass on the stone." 



" Not the semblance of a deer can I see; but I'll take 

 your word for it : I dare say he is there, since you say so. 

 And now explain to me how you mean to get at him : 

 communicate, my good fellow; for it seems, by all your 

 caution, that even at this distance you dare not show a hair 

 of your head." 



" Creep back, then, behind the hill, whilst I mark the 

 very spot in. the burn which is opposite his lair. Well, 

 now I will tell you : 



" We must go all round by the east behind yon hill, 

 and then come up at the notch between yon two hills, 

 which will bring us into the bog ; we can then come for- 

 ward up the burn under cover of its banks, and pass from 

 thence into the bog again by a side wind, when we may 

 take his broadside, and thus have at him. So let us make 

 the best of our way. It would be quite easy to get at the 

 hart if it were not for the hinds on the top of the hill ; but 

 if we start them, and they go on belling, the hart will 

 follow them, whether he sees us or not. Get your wind 

 he cannot. 



" Well, Lightfoot, you have come on capitally ; and 

 have hitherto been able to walk like a man, with your face 

 erect towards heaven. But now we are below the hill we 

 must imitate quadrupeds or even eels, for an hour or so. 

 You have promised most faithfully to comply with my in- 

 structions ; so pray walk and creep behind me, and carry 

 yourself precisely as I do. Be like unto the dotterel, who, 

 according to the worthy and veracious Camden, stretches 

 out a wing when the fowler extends his arm, and advances 



