14 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
travelling just out of range of you until night falls, even though 
you ‘can see a hind leg, broken high up, swinging loosely at 
every step he takes ; but the same beast will lie down very soon 
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Skin and pack 
if he has not seen or winded his enemy ; his wound will stiffen, 
and in an hour he will be easy enough to stalk again and kill. 
When you kill your stag, don’t cut his throat, as a Tartar 
would do, high up, thereby spoiling the head for mounting, but 
plunge your knife into his chest. This will let out the blood 
