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On one of these occasions, however, I can t help 

 seeing the cause of the cessation of our slow pro- 

 gress ; the head of a hind appears from above a 

 low mossy knoll on our right, followed, to my 

 horror, by her whole body, looking so dreadfully 

 big and near that I consider our detection certain, 

 as indeed it would have been had she advanced 

 but a few more steps. As it is, she stops on the 

 top of the knoll, looking beyond and over us, and 

 after a long and careful scrutiny of the safe dis- 

 tance, apparently disregarding the dangerous fore- 

 ground, she calmly turns her head, scratches her 

 ear with her hind foot, and walks out of sight again. 

 Then after Donald has slowly raised himself a foot 

 or so, and as slowly subsided, his long limbs re- 

 commence their mysterious gliding- 1 ' motion, and I 

 follow like a tender to his engine. 



At last oh, how long it was ! we reach the 

 more uneven ground, and can actually assume a 

 sitting posture, a blessed relief, and Donald lays 

 down my rifle against the bank and whispers his 



