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larger game on the mountain slopes that overlooked the valley. The 

 keeper who accompanied the ladies was constantly spying for his 

 beloved chamois. He had taken Lady Loder's Mannlicher with him 

 on the off chance of a certain wary old buck who roamed a certain 

 Gschroff quite low down near the stream becoming visible. And 



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really so it happened, for when Lady Loder had caught seventeen 

 and my wife six good trout, the keeper suddenly spied the beast, 

 and. in less than half an hour from landing her last trout, Lady Loder 

 had grassed what turned out to be the buck with the longest Krickeln 

 (horns) of the season — an afternoon's bag that will not soon be equalled. 



