REINDEER-STALKING IN RYFYLKE. 
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horns measured 51 inches in extreme length, by 29 
inches beam. No. 2 stag, though of no such bulk, 
carried a fine clean head of 23 points, with horns 
measuring 36 inches by 27i beam. The third proved, 
unfortunately, to be an old hind with long single-switch 
horns, while the others were two-year old bucks, all 
three in the velvet. 
It was five o’clock 
ere the obsequies were 
performed and we 
started, each burdened 
with a skin, head, and 
horns, and a supply 
of venison-steaks, on 
the three-hours’ tramp 
homeward. Darkness 
overtook us, and not 
even the triumph of 
the day wholly recon¬ 
ciled us to the terrible 
labour of that night. 
To begin with, I got a 
nasty fall crossing the 
river. The fording of 
that torrent in the 
morning, with deer before us, had seemed a simple affair; 
but now, with these same deer on our backs, it resulted 
in an awkward accident. A submerged boulder towards 
which I had jumped, though it lay in full four feet of 
rushing water, rolled over, and in a moment I was down. 
Luckily there was a protruding rock beyond to fall on, 
so I escaped with a ducking, two bad knocks on the 
A FIFTY*ONE INCH HEAD. 
( Twenty-five 'points —shot September 1 , 1893 .) 
