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try ; " so away I went to hunt up the tracks of the buck ; I 
took them up where it had hiid down and followed them 
along the side of the hill to the rocks, beyond which we lost 
all trace ; but while hunting in the only direction he could 
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have taken, a rocky slope with bushes overhanging a fearful 
precipice, I saw Francis, who was sonre distance from me and 
near the edge, give a sudden start, look behind him. and then 
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