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the bullet had passed through the body. Every search 

 was vain; yet passed it must have done, otherwise it 

 could not have struck the plank and left its impression 

 there. It was most enigmatical, and began to appear 

 inexplicable, when, on looking at the neck a little way 

 behind the ear, I found the spot where the bullet had 

 egressed. It had entered the right shoulder, and 

 having touched a bone, had gone off in a slanting 

 direction the whole length of the neck, and out behind 

 the left ear. 



When the park of Eichstadt was given up after the 

 death of the Duke of Leuchtenberg,all the game was shot, 

 and one of my acquaintances having received permission 

 to kill a certain number of deer, he spent some days there 

 for the purpose. In the park is a diversity of scenery, 

 meadow, upland, rocks, water, &c. ; and as a fine white 

 fallow buck was standing perched upon a stony slope 

 he fired, and brought him rolling down to the foot of 

 the declivity. He had been examining his prize some 

 time, when the buck rose and got clear off; and it was 

 only on being followed by a hound and brought to bay 

 that he was again sent rolHng over by a second shot. 

 And yet the bullet which had struck him was found to 

 be well lodged, and might reasonably have been expected 

 to prove immediately fatal. 



But the most strange occurrence that has happened 

 in my experience is that circumstance related in a note 



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