38 CAMP-FIRES OF A NATURALIST. 



bounds with its head high in the air and stopped, 

 stone still, listening. Then the rifle spoke and the 

 buck crashed through the woods at full speed, but he 

 was jumping high. Soon he came to the ground in 

 a heap, and the signal-yell brought the boj r s and 

 Reuben and the finest specimen of the trip was taken 

 to the ranch. With seven deer killed with seven 

 shots, Dyche was now ready to return to his duties 

 away from the woods, 



