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moment, as quietly as possible, they will be ready enough 

 to come, without compulsion." 



" So here is another of your boggy steeps antiseptic 

 no doubt ; but I will not be buried in them to try their 

 properties : I shall get up capitally." 



" Not if you proceed in that manner, I assure you. 

 This hill is too steep to walk heel and toe ; your style is 

 not mechanical : see what a lever you are making use of ; 

 just stick the side of one foot horizontally against the hill, 

 and bring up your other underneath it, keeping the same 

 foot always uppermost as I do : see now how compact 

 you go without labour, almost without exertion, and 

 certainly without the aid of your hands, which you were 

 using before." 



" Capital ! so I do. Can you also give me any receipt 

 for running ? " 



" Only, as I said before, to go as compact as possible ; 

 all swinging of the arms, and kicking of the legs behind, 

 is so much unnecessary motion, which impedes your pro- 

 gress, worries the whole body, and distresses your wind. 

 But a truce to conversation, however agreeable to me: 

 we must now proceed in silence." 



Now had they passed the moss, and attained the rocks 

 on the summit, and were sitting down behind a large block 

 of granite ; they laid the rifles on the ground, pulled off 

 their caps, and wiped their foreheads. Tortoise held his 

 watch in his hand ; it wanted five minutes of the time for 

 starting the deer. Again and again he looked at the slow 

 progress of the minute-hand : it was just on the point ; it 

 has passed it ; the deer then must be in motion ; a short 

 space he gave them, to get forward, that he might be 



