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try ; " so away I went to hunt up the tracks of the buck ; I 

 took them up where it had laid down and followed them 

 along the side of the hill to the rocks, beyond which we lost 

 all trace ; but while hunting in the only direction he could 





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have taken, a rocky slope with bushes overhanging a fearful 

 precipice, I saw Francis, who was some distance from me and 

 near the edge, give a sudden start, look behind him, and then 



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