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A TALL SHOT. 



we came upon another herd. Michael went ahead, I was 

 standing still when Atley ran up and touched me, making a 

 sign that some of the herd had turned back, and taking the 

 Ross rifle, I ran up just in time to intercept a bull and a cow; 

 I gave the former, one barrel as he stood and the other as he 

 dashed at speed across a bit of open, which brought him 

 down with a tremendous crash as dead as a stone, he was a 

 small bull but with good horns. 





WITH A TREMENDOUS CRASH AS DEAD AS A STONE. 



I had a most exciting encounter with bison one morn- 

 ing. Soon after entering the forest I heard the twigs 

 breaking near us, but the beasts either smelt or heard us ; 

 a couple of snorts, a rush and they were gone. We took up 

 the tracks of what appeared to be a large bull and a cow ; 

 got quite near them, but again came the snorts and they were 

 off; again we came up to them, and I saw a small cow, but 



