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CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



be tremendous. The forester was disappointed however ; 

 the men came and kindled their fire as usual above the 

 spot where the bomb was hidden, but from some cause 

 or other, from being too deep perhaps, no explosion took 

 place. 



" I '11 take good care they shall not get much here, at 

 least," said Max; and cocking his rifle, both barrels 

 thundered one after the other, and broke for some mi- 

 nutes the quiet of the still evening scene. " If any game 

 is on my side of the mountain, it will be off now," said 

 he ; " and if they want a chamois they must go on their 

 own ground. But look how astonished they all are at 

 hearing a shot so near them [" And then, after waiting a 

 few minutes to see what they would do, we went leisurely 

 downwards to the valley. 



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