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kicking and was dead long before we reached
home. What a huge brute he was, and
what a magnificent head! I shall never
believe that an animal could be so splendid!
His horns were perfect and my hands
could not even meet around them at
the base.
Then he raised his head it has set me back,
with such a feeling of satisfaction, made
a thrill of delight, let set the blood rushing
through my body. It was the most
wonderful trophy of a sportsman's life.
They, of course I wanted to know what
had happened at my first shot. The wound
was then upon his right cheek. My first
bullet had gone high struck him in that
corner after mouth, and emerged a few
inches further on. The second a painful
wounded but by no means fatal out
the rain head would not have been
lying there had some strange impulse
directed him back again to see what
had so badly stung him. The second
ball had been centred in his neck as if
in the bull's eye of a target, and had done
its work as I knew it would be done.
There is no argument with a man
whicher bullet well placed.