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have extreme caution in certain situations, and at the same 

 time, prompt decision and execution: boldness also, amount- 

 ing to rashness in others; always, indeed, a happy 

 mixture of the two in the same movement ; in short, you 

 should be constituted something after the fashion of Sardus 



Tigellius- 



" Ssepe velut qui 



Currebat, fugiens hostem, persaepe velut qui 

 Junonis sacra ferret." 



I know nothing more beautiful than the running of a 

 skilful deer-stalker, when the harts are in quick motion. 

 He dashes after, or parallel to them, in order to come in at 

 certain places ; but never blindly, never straight forward, 

 as if he could overtake them ; but winding, sweeping, and 

 lurching behind the ridges and hillocks, or down a narrow 

 chasm, or up the stony channel of a burn, just keeping 

 sight of the points of their horns; stooping or rising, 

 moderating or increasing his pace according to circum- 

 stances, always preserving the wind, and taking care never 

 to commit himself by coming upon such an open tract of 

 ground as would fairly expose him to view; such blind 

 rashness would hurry on the herd, and give them a fresh 

 start for miles ; for even if he should discover a solitary 

 hillock, or block of granite behind which he could find 

 time to conceal himself for the moment, still he could not 

 advance from this position, and he would be what is 

 technically called " locked in." 



Every person, I believe, who carries a rifle, is aware 

 that when deer are disturbed, they always move up wind. 

 They have an astonishing faculty of smelling the taint in 

 the air at an almost inconceivable distance; being thus 



