absolutely marherst. Two of my bullets had passed entirely thru his body, one had broken his hips & another just broke his back. How the animal ever carried off so much lead will always remain a mystery to me. Harry's bullet alone should have put an ordinary animal down for good. This rapier was a splendid bull, whose antlers carried out points on one side & quite with other. He was in perfect condition. He could hardly have been a finer specimen. There was no doubt but that the rapier Harry found near du ves I had just just shot. They had gone directly down the hill & stopped at the upper end of a patch of thin cover & he got just time for them to meet there & after he left me. He had fired at very long range for the wind was running righty and his first bullets had fallen short. The sight of that splendid animal, which in nearly other part of its world is so typical of dense forests, lying then upon the grassy uplands where not the smallest bush was in sight, seemed as incongruous as the first automobile which I saw on the gulf coast. I could hardly believe that this large animal could really find his way in such an e-