trick ever played, kept himself com- 

 pletely covered by that tree, you 

 know they are awfully thin edge on, 

 until he entered a clump of bushes 

 fifty feet away, and all that I ever 

 saw of him was a yellow tail swaying 

 from right to left of that tree. Oh, 

 that mocking, tantalising tail! 



Children! Can you imagine my 

 feelings? I believe I would have 

 fired into that tree if Lusk had not 

 brought me to my senses. * No ! 

 scare everything.'" 



"That was hard luck," we all 

 chorused. Bobbie squared his shoul- 

 ders and went on 



' ' I looked for the goat. Of course, 

 it was gone too. We started to get 

 across the slide in pursuit. It was 

 awfully loose; wouldn't hold at all. 

 Down, down we slipped, with an awful 

 rattle of falling stones below, and 

 above came pelting a regular land- 

 slide, and we in the middle of it. 

 When we finally brought up, we 

 were a quarter of a mile below the 

 goat spur. We had missed it alto- 

 gether, way above us, and I was 

 thankful not to go pounding down 

 to the chasm below, with many of 



