H El 'MAN'S DATCH. 



can move about in thick covert, is almost more 

 wonderful than the tremendous noise even small 

 ones make when so minded. I picked out the 

 leading boar, fired, and with a thundering rush 

 they were gone. How I could have missed him 

 I don't know, but I apparently did clean, and 

 for the rest of that day I found it harder than 

 ever not to speak somewhat unadvisedly with 

 my lips when a long loop of ' wolf's tooth ' caught 

 me up under the nose, or a hazel wand flew back 

 and cut me over the ear. 



Later on in the afternoon we were all three 

 walking abreast, with perhaps a hundred yards 

 between each gun, when I caught a glimpse of 

 Ivan stealthily scrambling up an old stump, from 

 which elevated position he aimed carefully, for 

 what seemed about five minutes, at something 

 almost under his feet. Then followed the click 

 that denotes a missfire, and a great crashing 

 amidst the rhododendron bushes, as a big brown 

 bear scuttled away in undignified flight. Some 

 minutes afterwards, whilst Ivan with many curses 

 was descending from the stump, his valuable piece 

 went off, luckily damaging no one. 



Except some wild boars seen by Yepheem, this 

 was the last game we saw during the day, although 

 we came across regular roads made by bears and 

 swine, and one patch . of several acres, which from 

 the broken fruit-trees and trampled state of the 



