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sheep
there had reached the bottom of the valley where my fourth bullet and hit [illegible]
and struck him with a [illegible] in
the neck broke his neck.
Tom had opened fired fire when the
the other came threw
they appeared at the mouth of the cany-
intestine, but his rear sight had been loacked
so the climber down the cliff this shots
did not damage wound well. It was hard luck
that I had my remaining two carted to
kill an argali.
got at the second one as he ran up,
the of [illegible] hill in the range was
three hours about six miles, and
there was a [illegible]. The abtmen
guest moved that finished the big ram
eventually
and I might have killed the other
before it crossed the creek, but my
experience has taught me that as hunt
animals it is best to keep planting at
chances with
rough country.
to take no a wounded animal such as this.
fors good. I have lost too many
bringing both
specimens by attempting to finish
them off when they were badly hit.
The game I had killed was a beauty.
His horns were almost equal to those of the record
head which Harry had killed on the first day but
one of themwas
scarred by a broken tip. A
the left horn, he must have lost,
two or three feet it must have weathered nearly a score of winters.
The old warrior I saw many [illegible]