quickly recovered. He was not seri- 

 ously hurt, only frightened and winded. 

 He rose to his feet and stood for an in- 

 stant looking directly at us, his head 

 with its growing horns held high in the 

 air, as if to thank us for the protection 

 from a lesser foe he had so boldly asked 

 and so freely received of an all power- 

 ful enemy. Then, turning, he lightly 

 sped over the plain in an opposite direc- 

 tion, and the eagle, who had kept us in 

 sight until now, perhaps with a linger- 

 ing hope, rose swiftly upwards and was 

 lost to sight. 



One elk with an eleven-point crown, 

 and one antelope, of the finest ever 

 brought down, is the tax I levied on 

 the wild things. Of the many, many 

 times I have watched them and left 

 them unmolested, and of the lessons they 

 have taught me, under Nimrod's gui- 



