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between the place where I shot him through the 
neck and the place we lost him the day the young 
chief wounded him is hardly half a mile apart. 
That day the stag was first wounded, he went 
whatever a distance of six or seven miles to that 
quiet spot in the centre of the Glashan. The 
day I shot him through the neck I followed him 
for about eight miles from the place where I 
grazed his foreleg below the heart. He never 
saw me, he never stopped, always making for 
that private spot, the place in the centre of the 
Glashan. So this stag went two times to that 
same place, as he hoped he would be safe there, 
and possibly that stag might have been lying in 
the same bed both nights." This shows the 
distance a stag will go for safety, and that he goes 
back to his old home, the spot where he thinks 
he is safe. And so I believe that my friend the 
stalker must have been right in thinking that the 
stag he had found in April was the stag I had shot 
in the early days of the preceding October. 
