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was found to contain no fewer than thirteen 

 Paradox bullets, and most of these had " mush- 

 roomed " under the skin on the further side. 

 Even experienced sportsmen have been puzzled 

 by the unconcerned way in which some animals 

 receive bullets in vital parts of the body. 

 Indeed, these sometimes seem to take so little 

 effect that beginners, who imagine that they 

 held their rifle straight, are disheartened by 

 the conviction that they must have missed 

 altogether. I recollect the case of an old bull 

 elk in Sweden, which was hit four times, after 

 which he trotted quietly off into the forest. 

 Yet it was afterwards discovered that two of the 

 bullets had gone clean through the animal's 

 brain and two through the shoulder blades ! 



The remaining horned game of India com- 

 prises all manner of deer and antelopes, though 

 it is not the purpose of this book to include a 

 full list. As examples of the deer, we may take 

 the sambur and barasingh, while the most 

 attractive and best known of the Indian ante- 

 lopes is undoubtedly the blackbuck. The 

 sambur, known to sportsmen in Ceylon as the 

 " elk," is a splendid creature, though its antlers 

 do not show the ten points of our Scotch stags, 

 having, in fact, no more than three. As, how- 

 ever, the sambur's antlers may measure fifty 

 inches, they make a beautiful trophy. The 

 animal does not appear to shed them regularly 



