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A TALL SHOT. 
we came upon another herd. Michael went ahead, 1 was 
standing still when Atley ran up and touched me, making a 
sign that some of the herd had turned back, and taking the 
Ross rille, I ran up just in time to intercept a bull and a cow ; 
I gave the former, one barrel as he stood and the other as he 
dashed at speed across a bit of open, which brought him 
down with a tremendous crash as dead as a stone, he was a 
small bull but with good horns. 
WITH A TREMENDOUS CRASH AS DEAD AS A STONE. 
\ had a most exciting encounter with bison one morn- 
ing. Soon after entering the forest I heard the twigs 
breaking near us, but the beasts either smelt or heard us ; 
a couple of snorts, a rush and they were gone. We took up 
the tracks of what appeared to be a large bull and a cow ; 
got quite near them, but again came the snorts and they were 
off; agaiji we came up to them, and I saw a small cow, but 
