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mountain as if untouched ; I fired the other barrel but the 

 ball went just over his back ; he disappeared under the hill, 

 when suddenly I heard a tremendous crash in the shola, 

 and Francis said he had just seen him fall over. The hind 

 appeared below and did not seem to know where to go 

 without him. I found the stag lying in the stony water- 

 course, having fallen over a sheer rock of some twenty feet 





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without injuring his antlers beyond a scrape or two ; had 

 he fallen on his back he must have smashed them all to 

 pieces. A very handsome head, the smaller antler had 

 a little extra point on the upper tine. He was a very 

 large stag in bulk, looking, as Francis said, like a bullock. 

 I had struck him just in the right place behind the shoulder 

 the ball passing through and lodging in the hind fetlock 



