A DISGUSTED HUNTER. 133 



hind a jutting rock which stood on the top of the 

 mountain. The animals were still moving about 

 almost within reach of his arm, yet he could not see 

 them, although they were heard so plainly. He 

 lifted his head carefully, just enough to permit him 

 to peer through a crack in the rocks, and there, stand- 

 ing in the sunshine and not forty feet away, almost 

 under him he saw, broadside towards him, two big 

 mule deer bucks. The revulsion of feeling at this 

 moment was so bitter that in his disappointment he 

 jumped *to his feet and began throwing rocks at the 

 deer, which went down the mountain faster than 

 they had ever travelled before. Dyche was so sure 

 of finding sheep when he lifted his head above the 

 rocks that his keen disappointment unnerved him, 

 and he returned to camp disgusted. 



