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ance, but, on approaching 

 the ground, take care to 

 save their lives by stretch- 

 ing out their fore-feet in 

 the nick of time. De 

 Mora, in his " History of 

 Mexico," goes so far as to assert 

 that the carnero cimarron cannot 

 be killed at all by a fall " unless he 

 should happen to drop on the sharp peak of a rock." A 



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A STEEP ALTERNATIVE. 



