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another in tlic nioniing-, so there was meat in camp 

 that night. 1 was certainly in excellent iorni that year, 

 l)ut lest T sliuuKl seem to boast, T mav mention that ii 

 few days afterwards, I had three chances, each one sim[)ler 

 than the other, and missed them all ! 



\i' a person is willing to face douhtful weatlici'. he 

 may often have the finest sport late in the year, when the 

 l>ucks aie on the move. They are then sometimes seduced 

 within range Ii\' their own headlong passions. It is a case 

 of mistaken identity. IMy friend Sam furnishes me with 

 the following note (^f such an experience: 



"The autumnal e(|uinox is not always fa^■ou^al»le foi' 

 stalking; hut if its customary storms are suspended, the 

 [)atient sportsman may sally out with an assured prospect 

 of sport. If he should he favoured with still In-ight frosty 

 weather, and iVesh white snow, upon which tracks can he 

 picked u[i at any distance, the cream of the season lies 

 before him. For about this date a new element enters 

 into the gam(\ Even the most chui'lish old solihnrcx 

 seek to 'join the ladies.' The weighty old gray-face 

 now sallies forth in rpiest of the fail-; and his weakness 

 may sometimes lead him into embarrassins: situations. 

 It may seem unfeeling to take advantage of his rash 

 indiscretions — but that these occasions mav be iirolitabK- 

 turned to account the loHdWiug will show. 



" It was the last week in ( )ctober — stormy weather had 

 kept us jirisoners for several davs. wIkmi the change came, 

 and we dcteiniiiiid to oivc it one more da\- before startino- 

 homewards. M \- eouipanio)i and T hail -taited before dawn, 

 and the morning had broken upon a perfect day. A\ e pro- 

 ceeded up a valle\- at the head olwlileh \\r Imd [ireviously 



