where had reached the highest ridge & stopped & taken a look over the country. Almost at once I saw a herd of eight cattle feeding in the croft on that hill fully a mile away, & waited until they had worked over the summit & disappeared, meanwhile planning the stalk. I could see that a shallow depression swung around in the declivity which had gone & when it was again moving I gave up gallied shots & kept in its bottom. The crooked, for such it was, took us just where we wanted to go and after 15 minutes the farmer who was in front, suddenly slipped off his horse and signed for us all to dis- mount. I crawled up the gentle slope and then not 20 yards away was the herd, quietly feeding. Then heats were down & in my anxiety for a shot they looked & fired quickly & missed. They were both like a flash but at one of them in another place & picked off the nearest animal. Another head appeared at the limit height I fired & it went down as a heap. The By this time I had fired two more unsuccessfully, the animals