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except other animals and I killed them
I fired again, the deer leaped into the
air turning a complete back summers
ault, it fell in a heap. At once fine
dew, the back white shiver shimmering
the animal, the buck whose I had
just missed circled about us
with the summit of the ridge but
would not give a shot.
Even the most exacting person could
not have asked for a more perfect day
than was given us when game and
ride both crowded at half past five.
The air was sharp fresh and the sky
was cloudless, there was not a breath
of wind, we rode across the rocky foot of
the ravine standing our horses at the
base of that into began the long climb
up the slope. We were two thirds
of the way to the top when my hunter
stopped, pointed upward and whispered
"Pan-yang". There on the very summit
of the ridge stood a magnificent tree
silhouetted against the sky. Its great
horns curved about a head as firmly held
as that of a Roman warrior, as it gazed
down into the valley to the dark blue ridge
of its opposite mate. Crossed mountains
on the trail we watched the same
for half an hour. He was far beyond