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critical; for our friend on the right (No. 1) was now 
nearly abeam of us, not sixty yards away, and we 
had to wriggle round the stone to keep out of sight. I 
had waited as long as I dared—another twenty yards 
and that intrusive little beast must come below our 
wind. The sights now lay very true on No. 3—just 
behind the shoulder as he stood one-third from us, 
at seventy yards—and he fell so dead I never saw 
him drop. 
Now it was that luck stepped in. Both the small 
deer had dashed off—the spike-horn actually going 
behind—and, in that instant, No. 4 bounced up on the 
ridge, took this in, and stood for a second c: on gaze.’' 
I had only one barrel loaded ; but felt that that ball 
had gone true, though the deer disappeared at the shot. 
There was blood hard by, however, and within a hundred 
yards, he lay dead on the rocks, with a tiny hole full in 
the centre of his shoulder. 
This deer carried a really pretty head, shapely and 
regular. Though taping less than three feet, the horns 
carried over thirty points : while, on the first deer, we 
counted seventeen—both clean. 
III. Hints on Stalking. 
The Reindeer I regard as ranking quite with the 
first of European big game. Both his haunts and his 
habits combine to place him among the best of all beasts 
of chase. For he feeds by day and frequents open 
fjeld, where he is ever amove, and that in full view, 
from dawn till dusk—save for one hour, or possibly two, 
at midday, when the hunter will be well advised to 
