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sense) where there is poor shelter, and where the ground is either 



very steep or elevated, stags form but a small percentage of the 



bag. In a certain shoot, which some friends and I rented in Styria, 



we killed over 240 chamois in the four seasons ; but only a few stags 



were obtained, though we mioht have killed a larger number had we 



not been bound by our lease to kill nothing under eight-pointers. 



Our four keepers, of whom a portrait in their "Sunday best" 



stands at the head of this article, were good specimens of Styrian 



Jiigers — good cragsmen, untiring and dependable 

 Jaegers. 



fellows, who knew every inch of the ground as well 



as they did the wiles and habits of the nimble game, in the daily 



watching of which they spend their lives. Men of this stamp are 



children of the mountains among which they were born. Many of 



them have never seen a town of any size, and life outside the solitude 



of their mountain-girt homes is full of puzzling mysteries. When the 



Emperor of Austria's jubilee was held two years ago in Vienna, the 



parade of some 7,000 keepers and foresters drawn from all parts of the 



conglomeration of provinces and dressed in their national costume, 



formed the most strikingly picturesque and. considering the aged 



monarch's passionate love for the chase, also exceedingly appropriate 



incident in the vast gathering. Our four keepers, in the dress in 



which we see them in the photograph, formed part of the Styrian 



contingent, and, though their stay in the bewildering mazes of the 



gay capital was necessarily only of the briefest, the adventures 



that befell them were, as naively related by the unsophisticated 



sons of the mountains, most amusing. 



Of stalking in the Scotch sense, i.e., of first spying out your ground 



