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giving me a good side shot. At the report of 

 the Winchester, they ran off at a fast pace, 

 but we made out a splash of color on the light 

 skin behind the shoulder of the animal shot 

 at, and my next shot taking her for it was a 

 cow in the buttock, she slowed up, and a 

 bullet through the spine settled the matter. 

 The horns were slender, and of the fair length 

 of thirty-three inches. 



One day the men discovered a bunch of 

 about fifteen aoul antelope, which are about 

 the size of a large goat, and have beautiful 

 lyre-shaped horns. These were off on one 

 side, and my shikari and I stalked them 

 around a hill, by which they were feeding. 

 This brought us within a hundred and ten 

 paces, and gave me a quiet shot at the leading 

 buck. The ball not only passed through his 

 shoulders, but, on running up, we found, lying 

 dead about five feet beyond, a doe, killed by 

 the same ball, though we were not aware that 

 another animal was so near. Still another 

 aoul, offering a running shot at fifty yards, 

 gave me a chance I could not resist. This re- 

 sulted in a broken hip, which enabled me to 

 get her after a short run. We soon gave up 

 trying to get a shot at aoul from a concealed 



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