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three shots as quickly as that was at
rather larger game.
1T was at elephants.
II killed them all three as dead rs |
killed those woodcocks, but it very
nearly went the other way. I can tell
you.
II mean they very nearly killed me-
Just at that moment the keeper came
up.
Did you happen to get ono Of them
lhcre cocks, sir"' he said with the
air OF q man who did not in the least
expect an answer in the affirmative.
"Well, yes, Jeffries,'' answered Qua
termain.
You will find one Of them by the
hedge, and another about fifty yards
out by the plow there to the left
The keeper had turned to go, looking
little astonished, when Quatermain
called him back.
stop 4 bit, Jeffries," he said.
You see that pollard about one hun
dred and forty yards off?
"WeIl, there should be another wood
cock down in 4 line with it, about
sixty PAGES out in the field"
''Well, if that beant the very'smart-
| est bit of shooting" murmured Jefries.
and departed.
After that we went home, and in due
course Sir Henry Curtis and Cap
tain Good turned up to dinner, the
latter in the tightest and most orna-
mental dress suit 1 ever saw.
| I remember that the waistcoat was
adorned with five pink coral buttons.
1t was very pleasant dinner.
| Old Quatermain was in excellent
humor, induced, I think, by the recol-
lection of his triumph over the doubt
ing Jeffries.
Good. too, was full OF anecdotes.
| He told us the most miraculous story
OF how he once went shooting ibex in
Kashmir.
These ibex, according to Good, ne
stalked early and late for four entire
days.
At last, OF the morning Of the fifth
day, he succeeded in getting within
range of the flock, which consisted of
4 magnificent old ram. with horns SO
long that am afraid to mention their
measure, and five or six females.
| Good crawied upon his stomach, pain
fully taking shelter behind rocks, till
| he was within two hundred yards;
then he drew a fine bead upon the old
ram.
At this moment however. a. diver
| sion occurred.
Some wandering native of the hills
appeared upon a distant mountain top.
The females turned, and rushing over
a rock vanished from Goods ken:
| But the old ram took a bolder course
In front of him stretched mighty
crevasse at least thirty feet in width.
He went at it with bound.
While he was in midair Good fired,
and killed him dead.
The ram turned q complete somer-
saut in space, and fell in such fash
| ion that his horns hooked themselves
| upon q big projection Of the opposite
| cliffs.
There he hung until Good, after
long and painful detour, gracefully
| dropped a lasso over him and tished
him up.
This moving tale of wild adventure
was received with undeserved in
| creduiity.
"Well," said Good. "if you fellows
won't believe my story when I tell it
a perfectly true story. mind-perhaps
one of you will give US a better; Pm
not particular if it is gue or not
| And he lapsed into dignified silence.
"Now, Quatermain," ! said, don't
let Good beat you; let's hear how you
killed those elephants you were talking
about this evening just after you shot
the woodcocks."
"WelI," said Quatermain. dryly, and
with something like a twinkle in his
brown eyes, 'it is very hard fortune
for man TO have to follow on Goods
'spoor''
Indeed, if it were not for that run
ming giraffe, which, as you will re-
member, Curtis, we saw Good bowl
over with a Martini rifle at three hun
dred yards, ! should almost have said
that this was an impossible tale"
Here Good looked up with an air Of
indignant innocence.
| However," he went on, rising, and
lighting his pipe, IF you fellows like,
I will spin you yarn"
| I was telling one of you the other
night about those three lions, and how
the lioness finished my unfortunate
"voorIooper' Jim Jim, the boy whom
we buried in the breadbag.
We'll, after that little experience I
thought that 7 would settle down bit,
50 | went in for venture with man
who, being Of a speculative mind, had
conceived the idea of running store
at Pretoria upon strictly cash princi-
pies.
The arrangement was that I should
find the capital and he the expert
cncc.
Our partnership was not of long
duration.
The Beers refused to pay cash. and
at the end Of four months my partner
had the capital and I had the expert
ence
After this / came to the conclusion
that storekceping was not in my line
and having four hundred pounds left
| sent my boy Harry TO school in