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I had heard, among other things, of this `torch-hunting, in fact, had read many interesting descriptions of it, but I had never witnessed the sport myself; and was therefore eager, above all things, to join in a torch-hunt. "The opportunity at length offered. A party was made up to go hunting, of which I was one.
The gun is levelled, the trigger pulled; the bullet speeds forth, and strikes into his broad chest, causing him to leap upward in the spasmodic effort of death. The excitement of a scene like this rewards the hunter for his long and lonely vigil. "Torch-hunting," or "fire-hunting," as it is sometimes termed, is another method of capturing the fallow deer.
While we were on the subject of torch-hunting the doctor took up the cue, and gave us an account of a torch-hunt he had made in Tennessee. "I will tell you of a `torch-hunt," said he, "of which pars magna fui, and which ended with a `catastrophe. It took place in Tennessee, where I was for a while sojourning.
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