274 LAST SAM BUR. 
m Oil n tarn as if Lintoiiched ; I fired the other harrel but tht' 
ball went just over his back ; he disappeared under the hill, 
when suddenly I heard a tremendous crash in the shohi, 
and Francis said he had just seen him kll over. The hind 
appeared below and did not seem to know where to go 
without him. I found the stag lying in the stony water- 
course, having fallen over a sheer rock of some twenty feet 
TUB. DEER STALKER, 
without injuring his antlers beyond a scrape or two ; had 
he fallen on his back he must have smashed them all to 
pieces, A very handsome head, the smaller antler had 
a little extra point on the upper tine. He was a very 
large stag in bulk, looking, as Francis said, like a bullock. 
I had struck him just in the ri^t^ht place behind the shoulder 
the ball passing through and lodiring in the hind fetlock 
