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that our troubles were over, for now the ibex 

 would be tempted down by the green grass, 

 and we should have no more long climbs. 

 It was now June, and Lassoo said that 

 in ordinary years it was like this in April. 

 Certainly it was lovely, and with the ex- 

 ception of occasional snow-storms we had 

 no bad weather at all afterwards. As the 

 season was advancing, and as we were 

 steadily rising up the valley, we moved 

 with the spring, and had this class of 

 weather the whole way. The next month 

 work was very easy compared with what 

 we had had, and we did very well as far 

 as the amount of sport went ; but I did 

 not see a really fine head, though I got five 

 fair ones ; but the month after I did see one, 

 and spent four weeks after him. He was 

 right up at the very end of our valley, on 

 a mountain known as " Nun Kun," in very 

 bad rocky ground, and though I devoted 

 a month to him, I never got a fair chance, 

 though I did risk a long shot on the very 

 last day, and missed. 



