KEQL'iSlTES FOR EUKKELL .SHOOTING. &J 



fall of avalanches, detached masses of ice or 

 large stones, and it is 'common enough to 

 find them with broken legs and horns. The 

 males sometimes fight with each other, and 

 the weaker is pushed over the precipice, 

 but when quarrelsome, they generally prefer 

 some level spot, or a gentle slope, for their 

 encounter. 



Under ordinary circumstances, whoever 

 intends to go out burrel-shooting, deter- 

 mined to follow it up to a successful result, 

 must expect to toil in no trifling degree, and 

 summon a good stock of patience to his aid. 

 He must also be a good walker, and above 

 all, if not a first-rate, yet a tolerable rifle 

 shot, as even at the most favourable times, 

 many shots cannot be had in one day's 

 huntmg, and mortifying it must be in the 

 extreme, and tend to disgust any person 

 with burrell-shooting, if, after having fagged 

 up a steep hill for miles, in order to get the 

 chance of a shot, he miss after all, knowing 

 that there is perhaps but little probabiHty 

 of having another chance that day. An 



