HUNTING-CAMPS ON HARDANGER YIDDEN. 201 
by cautiously advancing from one to another, we had 
already approached within one hundred and twenty 
yards of its extremity ere the first of the smaller deer 
showed up in sight. He was feeding to the right—that 
is, towards the lake; and soon afterwards the second small 
beast was seen, moving down the left side of the ridge. 
“struck stiff”—(thirty-three points). 
Minutes now elapsed without any sign of the two more 
desirable deer. What was delaying them in that hollow 
ahead ? Both the smaller reins were already in shot, 
but the larger lingered. Besides, the little spike-horn 
on our right front was coming forward so fast on 
the barren ground that he must soon pass us and 
