REINDEER-STALKING IN RYFYLKE. 
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Most of the deer were lying down, but both the big 
stags stood upright in dreamy, inert postures. I now 
fully realized what a truly magnificent animal I had 
before me. Both in body and horn he was a giant, and 
his coat was no less remarkable; the neck was pure 
white, and beneath it a shaggy mane hung down a foot 
THE SENTINEL. 
{Sketched September 1 , 1893 .) 
in length. This white neck was set off by the dark 
head in front and the rich glossy brown of his robe 
behind. Besides this, the contrasting black-and-white 
bars on flanks and stern were conspicuously clean-cut 
and defined, and the long and massive antlers showed 
