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" He's suspeecious, sir ; he'll be ower the hill in a 

 minute." 



" All right, Kenneth," I replied, " let him go. It's 

 a most difficult shot where he is. We've two or three 

 hours before us. I won't fire now. I'll follow him 

 up, and stalk him again." 



And this advice I would give to any one under 

 similar circumstances. Never take a very difficult 

 shot as long as you have some daylight to come 

 and go on. Wait till the stag shifts his position, 

 even though there is a likelihood of his going out 

 of sight, and follow him up again in the hope he'll 

 give you a better chance next time. The stag on 

 this occasion did not move, as Kenneth anticipated. 

 I then thought of "whistling him on to his legs," 

 but what little I saw of him seemed so very steady, 

 that after waiting some time longer, I took him as he 

 lay, and, I am ashamed to say, missed him clean. 



Some years ago I was shooting at a " hot corner " 

 with a Harrow boy on one side and an Eton ditto on 

 the other, jealous for the honour of their respective 

 eats of learning. " ' Seats of learning ! ' that's good," 

 says the "indignant father," who has just finished a 

 column to the ' Times ' on the length of the holidays, 

 and what he gets for his money. Lord, that was a 

 warm five minutes ! Pheasants, male and female after 

 their kind for both youths shot " not wisely but too 

 well " fell on my head like the leaves in October. 

 Hares it Avas before the days of the present popular 



