FOLLOWING 
THE DEER 
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STILL HUNTING 
hind him, flicking the twigs sharply 
with his wings as he drove along. 
And then, on the path of his last 
forerunner, Old Wally appeared, his 
keen eyes searching his murderous 
gibbet-line expectantly. 
Now Old Wally was held in great 
reputation by the Nimrods of the 
. v^i^ village, because he hunted partridges, 
with scatter-gun " and dog, — 
such amateurish bungling he dis- 
dained and swore against, 
— but in the good old- 
fashioned way of stalking 
them with a rifle. As 
found out afterwards, he 
,was a wretched shot, and 
would no more have 
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