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hollows them separated, Harry put
on over the uplands while my hunter
swung sharply to the east along the
summit of a ridge, still hunting
for the same he had seen ---
before. He
It had a hard climb but saw
no deer. On from the summit
of a knife like ridge I dropped a
stone into a deep ravine and out
leaped that roebuck which had
been feeding directly beneath me
point of right. I snapped at the
buck as he disappeared around
a corner of rock but missed.
It was a great surprise to me
to find roebuck in country such
as this where there is no cover of
any kind, in Korea and Burma
where I have hunted them they
have never been far away from
heavy point but here exactly
the habits of the Virginia deer
at home. But here they frequent
the bottoms of the deep ravines
when there is not a bush area
2 feet in height. They seem have
totally changed their mode of living
partially having gradually adapted
themselves to the decreasing forest.