188 ANOTHER DAY AT CHEE-HA. 



was so instantaneous so like a flash of lightning 

 that I could scarcely credit it, when I saw the deer 

 twirling and turning over at my horse's heels. Dis- 

 mounting to secure him, it was some time before his 

 muscular action was sufficiently overcome to allow 

 me to use my knife. He struggled and kicked I 

 set down my gun, the better to master him. In the 

 midst of my employment, crack went Geordy's 

 second barrel, nearer than the first and mind! 

 mind ! followed the discharge. Before I could drop 

 my knife and gain my feet, another deer was upon 

 me ! He followed directly in the track of the for- 

 mer, and passed between my horse and me, so 

 near that I might have bayoneted him ? "Where 

 was my gun ? lost in the broom-grass ! What a 

 trial ! I looked all around in an instant, and spying 

 it where it lay, caught it eagerly up : the deer had 

 disappeared ! It flashed across me, that underneath 

 these myrtles, the limbs excluded from the sun had 

 decayed; and that in the vistas thus formed, a 

 glimpse of the deer might yet be gained. In an 

 instant I am on my knees, darting the most anxious 

 glances along the vista : the flash of a tail is seen 

 I fire a struggle is heard I press forward through 

 the interlacing branches and to my joy and sur- 

 prise, another deer is mine ! Taking him by the 

 legs, I drag him to the spot where the other lay 



