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THE BIG BULL OK PEER-MUND. 



the ground as I could and fired. At the shot he rose with 

 difficulty, and while doing so I gave him the other barrel. 

 He walked to the edge of the shola, about thirty yards 

 distance, stood for a moment just inside, and then fell 

 with a crash, stone dead. A very fine old bull, but unfor- 

 tunately one horn had broken in half. I made the good horn 

 thirty-three inches long and eighteen inches in circumference ; 

 the meet would have been about forty inches had the horns 

 been perfect. A grand head, indeed ; what a pity ! This was 

 the last bison I killed. 



