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big stags are only just beginning to come 

 across the railway, they are always the last to 

 migrate south. If we could only get a 

 snowstorm that would move them, and then 

 you would get a chance to pick some tine 

 heads." 



We then went back to our tree and watched 

 the " leads " till late in the afternoon. About 

 four o'clock a heavy fusillade broke out a few 

 hundred yards down the " lead " in front of us. 

 We coimted fifteen shots. This showed how 

 well-nigh hopeless our position had been, as, 

 all unknown to us, some other gunners were 

 sitting on the same "lead" ahead of us, and 

 would naturally have got the first chance at 

 any stag that came along. We presently saw 

 the man who had fired the shots. He told us 

 he had killed a good stag, and declared he had 

 only had two shots at it, but my guide who 

 knew him, told me that he was a man who 

 enjoyed a reputation for being somewhat 

 inaccurate in his statements. I afterwards 

 saw the head of the stag he had shot. It was 

 quite a nice one, but not so good as the one 



