I Tracked Up This Herd For Nearly A Mile, When I Observed
Them Behind A Large Bush; Some Were Lying Down And Others Were Standing.
A Buck And Doe Presently Quitted The Herd, And Advancing A Few Paces
From The Bush They Halted, And Evidently Winded Me.
I was screening
myself behind a small tree, and the open ground between me and the game
precluded the possibility of a nearer approach.
It was a random distance
for a deer, but I took a rest against the stem of the tree and fired at
the buck as he stood with his broadside exposed, being shoulder to
shoulder with the doe. Away went the herd, flying over the plain; but,
to my delight, there were two white bellies struggling upon the ground.
I ran up to cut their throats; (*1 This is necessary to allow the blood
to escape, otherwise they would be unfit for food) the two-ounce ball
had passed through the shoulders of both; and I stepped the distance to
the tree from which I had fired, 'two hundred and thirteen paces.'
Shortly after this 1 got another shot which, by a chance, killed two
deer. I was strolling through a narrow glade with open jungles upon
either side, when I suddenly heard a quick double shot, followed by the
rush of a large herd of deer coming through the jungle. I immediately
lay flat upon the ground, and presently an immense herd of full a
hundred deer passed across the glade at full gallop, within seventy
yards of me.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 148 of 343
Words from 39183 to 39444
of 91283
