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or in trying to play with the wire-netting trailing from the horns 

 of the other stag, contrived to get his own caught in the other end of 

 the netting. 



He and the big bull then waltzed round each other, getting 

 their horns more and more tangled up in the netting, and their 

 heads consequently nearer and nearer each other. The big bull 



Photo by H. Penfold. 



THREE-DAYS-OLD WAPITI. 



finally got his horns into the flank of the two-year-old ; then, 

 breaking all his ribs and his back, he killed him, after which he 

 started backing and pulling the dead body all over the paddock. 



My men were unable .to separate the living from the dead 

 deer, and finally had to chop off the horns of the little bull, 

 at the risk of their lives, while the big one kept charging at 



