PERSIAN WILD GOAT 
struck the beast too far back. We followed a considerable blood trail down 
a deep ravine where the going got worse and worse, till at last as I was 
going round a corner, with arms extended and feeling like a fly on a wall, 
the wounded goat suddenly appeared from a small cave in the cliff within 
sixty yards, and staggered on round the next corner before I could get 
to a place where there was a chance of using my rifle. 
Of course we followed, but a heavy thunderstorm obliterated the blood 
trail, and after a long search among the cliffs the following day I had to 
give it up altogether. 
Long shots at game should be avoided as unsportsmanlike and likely 
to wound only; perhaps on a bare mountain they are more permissible 
than elsewhere, as if the hunter remains concealed, the stricken beast, 
unable to locate the direction from which the shot came, will very likely 
lie down on the first rough ground he comes to, in a spot where he can be 
stalked again and finished off. 
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