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a iiiuilal place. ll is k) he Icared that some llial he 

 iittemptecl woiiKl havt' involved a shilling' fiue at Bisley. 

 Once he measured his length -which is almost lialf- 

 \va\' between six and se\en feet — in a si ream, and linrt 

 himself so severeK thai L assured liim al'lerwards he would 

 have a still" knee for lih', hut wnuld al\va\s lia\'e I he most 

 pleasurable associations with it. Jlis cartri<lges were 

 nearlv exhausted, when a snap shot struek the back of the 

 aiiimal's head, and the huiic beast lav eonciuered. How noble 

 a trophy he had won the following figures will show, at any 

 rate to the initiated. The head carried fourteen points, but 

 one of the " bays " had l)een broken in fighting-. The length 

 of the horn from the " burr" is 43-2- iiit^hes, span inside the 

 horn ;]s ', inches. No sueh stag as this, to the best of my 

 belief, has been seen in Western Europe, at least for many 

 o-enerations. The Castle of ^loritzburu, which contains 

 the most remarkable collection of stags' horns in I'^urope, 

 gathered during several centuries, can ])erhaps match it 

 with one or two. I do not think the weight could have 

 been much less than 40 stones. This it was impossible to 

 verify, but the foot and >hankd)one attached weitrhs •_*.', lbs.. 

 which is considerably mi»i'i' than (hmlile that of a good 

 Scotch stag. JMiidlav's initial could have stood Ibr" l^'ortu- 

 natus '" on this trip. Ihit, then, the last time we had been 

 together, somewhere in the far north, the luck had been 

 the other way. 



The next niuht an incident occurred which shows how 

 unsophisticated the fo-ce naturcB are in this district. The 

 Yuruk put his head into the tent and said there was a 

 beast prowling about, might he shoot it .'' Half an hour 

 afterwards he tired at and missed a fox. rndeteijcd b\- 



