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with game ; and though my chamois, being 

 an old one, made the least savoury soup 

 imaginable, I had no cause to complain of my 

 game being unappreciated. 



In camp I found two of the shepherds 

 looking rather down in the mouth, in conse- 

 quence of the illness of their third companion. 

 When I passed their camp at dawn this fellow 

 was sTovellmo; on the g'round in all the 

 agonies occasioned by a too plentiful repast 

 of unripe fruit. I had, at their request, given 

 him a note to Frank, who it seems had dosed 

 him, to the best of his abilities, with a decoc- 

 tion of laudanum, which we had with us for 

 the cure or prevention of cholera. As Frank 

 had no notion of the dose to be taken, and 

 the man seemed very ill, he (to use his own 

 words) poured him out about half a table- 

 spoonful, ' which, having swallowed, that 

 shepherd naturally slept.' But such was the 

 man's constitution that, though he slept all 



