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quickly recovered. He was not seri- \S 
ously hurt, only frightened and winded. ay 
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- 
“ioormmozm\z 
