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for he saw the antlers of a bull working
along behind them just over a tiny
ridge. As the bull came into view, I
saw him sticking it on the shoulder; his
second shot was a little behind the first.
The bull went down. It got its feet again,
and Harry put him under for good with
a solid bullet in the hips.
Looking up he saw a second bull
alone, emerging from a patch of
clover on the summit of the opposite hill
40 yards away. The flash point black
but the range was a bit too long and
his bullet kicked up a cloud of churned
mud as it struck the animal's belly.
I was entirely out of the race for
it was nearly 50 yards away on the summit
of the hill. I did not fire my gun at the
animal, thinking that the bullets all fell far
short. Harry's bull was not yet dead,
and when I got down the hill to show
what an enormous amount of
killing these animals need, it was
considerably smaller than the first
one we had killed but had an enormous
beautiful skin.
I hunted back to camp after the
bull had been skinned and I got
another network.