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exclaimed that I had missed him, and that I rather 

 fancied myself at a facing shot ! Boa said, " Are 

 you sure you missed him ?" And I said I was 

 afraid I was, as he neither kicked nor lifted to the 

 shot, and simply walked out of sight seemingly 

 quite unconcerned. Well, we hastened forward 

 to where he had disappeared, and there we saw 

 a large herd of deer streaming away down the 

 corrie, and perhaps making for a pass which 

 Boa said we might reach in time for another shot. 

 We got our glasses out, and could not find our two 

 stags in the herd. Then suddenly I saw the two 

 a good bit behind the rest of the herd, and Boa 

 agreed that they were probably our friends, so 

 we were just making off full tilt for the pass, and 

 had only gone a few yards, when we came on a great 

 pool of blood, and Boa exclaimed, " Why, you must 

 have got him " ; and there, a few yards farther on, 

 was our friend as dead as a door-nail with the bullet 

 right through his heart. He looked a magnificent 

 stag as he lay on the ground, and weighed 16 stone 

 1 pound when we got him in; he would probably 

 have weighed nearly 18 stone by the middle of 

 September. He had quite a good head of 9 points, 

 with a good spread and fairly long three on top 

 on the right, only two on the left good brow and 

 bay antlers, but no tray, and almost clean of the 

 velvet; altogether a wonderful prize for so early 

 in the season. We had got him almost on the 

 top of the ridge, and it must have been a very 



