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not go far ; the majority of them 

 pitched again in the end of the long 

 narrow bog we were walking. 



Presently Pierre, through exces- 

 sive caution, got bogged ; finding the 

 ground on which he was standing 

 quaky and yielding, he had stood 

 still, fearing to move in any direction 

 instead of stepping off ; and when he 

 felt himself sinking his first act was 

 to jam his gun-muzzle downwards 

 into the mud, and his second to issue 

 a succession of piercing yells which 

 speedily brought us to his assistance. 

 We soon lugged him and his gun 

 from the slime which, after all, was 

 not by any means a dangerous bog 

 and deposited him on the bank to 

 recover. Presently he reported him- 

 self fit to proceed, but he elected to 

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