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could, while he made a circuit and moved tliCTU. This 

 Sf'henic wc carried out. lait the\- did n(»t take the expected 

 direction. 1 ran ah)ni'- hehind a ridit'C to cut them oil' but 

 T could not o'ct within two liundi'cd yards of thoni. They 

 had seen nu\ l)ut thouijht thcv were far enouu'h to he safe, 

 and hunche(l up. The distance was really too far for any- 

 thini»' like a safe shot, and 1 had no husiness to trv it, hut. 

 eneourao-ed hy my previous skill or good luck, I selected a 

 nice l)uck and (ired. They rushed off helter-skelter and I 

 supposed I liad missed, as, perhaps 1. deser\ed to ilo ; l)Ut 

 ten miinites later, when 1 reached a spot which faced the 

 slope where they had been, T turned my glass on to it 

 while waiting for Cclestin to come up, and there lav the 

 body of the buck where it had fallen, stone dead to the 

 shot, behind the rock on which it had been standing, and 

 which had coni[iletely concealed its bod\' lioni the tiring 

 point, Celestin somehow managed to [lih' all three ainmals 

 on lo his back, and lor a short distance, but with labour- 

 ing steps, carried them so, till we reached a she])herd's 

 refuge and thei'e left them. We had still f'ulK' three 

 thnu-aiid feet of descent and the wa\' was rough, 

 but it was lightened bv a glorious moon, whose Immihs 

 streame(l ihi-ouuh the great pines and b\- an exhilarat- 

 iuij- sense of success. It was 9.30 Ijcfore I rejoined ni\ 

 companions. 



I think this was without exception the \h'>[ dax's 

 sport I evei' had : nor was that all. f )r Gerald and 

 Geof had each secured ;i lihihI buck. ( lci-;dd"s beast 

 had iiiven trouble df i;iilier an unusual kind. It had 

 been killed at the fop nj" ,i elill". down which it had ]'olle(| 

 f(ti- a lontr distance till (»ut of their siuht. The hunter went 



