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always get to within two hundred yards, we 

 were unable to approach any closer, and at 

 last I had to make up my mind to waste 

 another cartridge. This time my bullet took 

 effect behind the shoulder, and the chamois 

 rolled over, apparently dead at last. 



Imat and I scampered over the rocks to 

 lay hold of him, when, to our intense disgust, 

 he got up again and commenced a rapid flight 

 down hill. Up hill even he could travel no 

 longer, but by means of one sound hind leg, 

 and a number of involuntary somersaults, 

 he still got down hill too fast for the now 

 reckless Imat. 



The way we ran and tumbled amongst 

 those rocks, now getting so much way on 

 that we could not stop ourselves, then coming 

 down all in a heap and sliding bear fashion 

 on our sterns, nearly rivalled the extra- 

 ordinary progress of our game, and had it not 

 been for a well-aimed boulder, hurled by 



