Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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"but her smooth run was as smooth as the d had been on the ground," I told my s. One only it glanced back at Quite. She was com ing like a bird in her chestnut party. Her hair had loosened and was flying back like a veil behind her head. She was the incarnation of drama, the brunette, tense with excitement, heedless of all but those shining yellow forms before her. It was useless to look for holes. As I had came in we men over or around it, my jump's delayers was my only hope. His heel was low, wrung out and the necked was the slightest touch of my hand to quiet him. He knew where she was going, what for, and how to go after them. Perhaps four hundred antlers were flying along diagonally across our course. The remainder had scattered into groups of fifty or 100 and we were going in every direction. We were almost near enough to short gaining rapidly. In another moment we would be almost on the herd. Then they did the unexpected and suddenly changed their course, running directly away from us. This was fatal for my hopes for it is as useless to follow a herd of antler flies it would be to chase an airplane in an automobile. Hurry, why their little rump patches are permitted