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game was too strenuous, and at last I sat down on 
a spur of rock to recover my breath, with the 
goral somewhere in a ravine below me. The 
wily animal stole up from the ravine under cover 
of rocks and bushes, and actually passed within 
a few feet of me. As soon as he was past me he 
must have started running, for I heard a slight 
noise, and looking round, saw him scampering 
off up the ridge. Using a rock on which to rest 
my rifle, I tried several shots, but it was no use. 
The terrible strain I had undergone, tearing back 
and forth over the rough mountain side to keep 
the active animal from getting back amongst the 
peaks, had used me up and I could not steady my 
aim, and to my unspeakable chagrin and disap- 
pointment the goral escaped over the crest of the 
ridge. He passed Warrington and the beaters 
unobserved, and was well on his way to some 
high peaks behind the one where we had first 
surprised him, when he nearly fell foul of Schréder 
and Brodie. These two, with a couple of beaters, 
had been gradually working round towards us, 
when, hearing our shots, they sat down to see if any 
game would be driven their way. Presently they 
saw our goral come trotting along, heading straight 
for them. Just as he was within easy range one 
of the beaters coughed. Like a flash the active 
animal, rendered doubly so by his recent experiences 
with us, dodged behind some rocks. When next they 
saw him he was out of range climbing a distant ridge. 
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