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through bogs, up watercourses, and secret places in every 

 possible attitude, except that adapted to the nature of a 

 two-legged animal, is certainly picturesque and exciting. 

 But then it is a sort of assassination ; and you never get 

 the intellect of the animal to bear against you, or see his 

 motions, but steal upon him like a thief." 



" For mercy's sake, my good friend, do not prose any 

 longer, but tell me at once how the deuce we who are 

 sitting here have any chance of getting a shot at those 

 deer which are fifty miles beyond us. I long to be in 

 action." 



" Adagio, Adagio, you shall see. Do not be impatient, 

 my good fellow ; I will not be chary of instruction when 

 time shall serve. Why, Peter, what the deuce is Macla- 

 ren about ? will he never get behind the hill ? are we to 

 be kept here all day ? " 



"Why sure ye '11 no be expectin' he'll be there the 

 noo : he canna win that far in twanty minutes." 



" Well, well ; the time seemed longer." 



So, as I was saying, Lightfoot, you must not in this 

 case be impatient, but rather imitate the discreet Fabius. 

 He would have been a capital hand at a quiet shot." 



" Ay, and a capital proser too. But will you not give 

 me leave to imitate you, my incomprehensible master, who 

 have been fidgetting about, looking at your watch, taking 

 up your rifles, and putting them down again a hundred 

 times, and are as restless as a hyaena in a cage? A 

 pretty sort of Fabius you are yourself." 



" Xo, no, never mind me ; its only a way I have : or 

 perhaps I consider patience as King Charles did morality : 

 he loved it, he said, though he did not practise it. But I 



