" You'd oughter brought some fire crackers ! 

 If only he had sworn at me it would have been 

 endurable. 



We moved on again and this time I had eyes for 

 nothing but Rocky's back, and where to put my foot 

 next. It was not very long before he checked in 

 midstride and I stood rigid as a pointer. Peering 

 intently over his shoulder in the direction in which 

 he looked I could see nothing. The bush was very 

 open, and yet, even with his raised rifle to guide me, 

 I could not for the life of me see what he was aiming 

 at. Then the shot rang out, and a duiker toppled over 

 kicking in the grass not a hundred yards away. 



The remembrance of certain things still makes me 

 feel uncomfortable ; the yell of delight I let out as 

 the buck fell ; the wild dash forward, which died 

 away to a dead stop as I realised that Rocky himself 

 had not moved ; the sight of him, as I looked back, 

 calmly reloading ; and the silence. To me it was 

 an event: to him, his work. But these things were 

 forgotten then lost behind the everlasting puzzle, 

 How was it possible I had not seen the buck until it 

 fell ? Rocky must have known what was worrying 

 me, for, after we had picked up the buck, he remarked 

 without any preliminary, "It ain't easy in this bush 

 ter pick up what don't move ; an' it ain't hardly 

 possible ter find what ye don't know ! " 



" Game you mean ? " I asked, somewhat puzzled. 



" This one was feeding," he answered, after a nod 

 in reply. " I saw his head go up ter listen ; but 

 when they don't move, an' you don't jus' know what 



35 __. J 



