248 IN ALBANIA 



A minute after, the doo-s we had broucrht 

 on the yacht opened, and as I turned to the 

 covert a roebuck broke. Foro-ettine that 

 my right barrel was loaded with slugs (in 

 which I have at any time little faith), and 

 consequently useless at a range of nearly 

 a hundred yards, I fired it. The deer 

 chanored his course, oivino- me a broadside 

 shot for the bullet, and then disappeared in 

 the thicket. Presently I cauo-ht sioht of him 

 going up the wooded hillock, and, detecting 

 an abnormal movement, I ran after him and 

 found him Ivinor dead. The 20-bore shot- 

 and-ball gun had done its work well, the 

 wound was just behind the shoulder. H. 

 now joined me. He had run on to where 

 I was originally placed in the second beat, 

 and the pig had crossed the open glade but 

 one hundred and fifty yards from him, and 



