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The great unsuspicious birds were very near now, so near that a white hunter would have lost his equanimity in anticipation. Through the meshwork of the blind the stalker counted them. Twenty-seven there were together, and near to him another, a sentinel.
It was a wonderful pistol that an Irish one by birth, and absolutely incapable of bursting, else assuredly it would have gone, as its owner said, to "smithereens" long ago. Barney was not a good stalker. The alligator awoke and made for the water as fast as it could waddle.
"Jump?" queried little Bobby Simerton, whose strong suit at the club was talking about meets and hunters. "Never refused anything I put him at," replied Stalker; "takes every fence as if it was the regular thing."
I accept you," said Stalker, turning away, while his men burst into a laugh, and felt that Flinders would be a decided acquisition to the party. "Are we to go without provisions or weapons?" asked Fred Westly, before leaving. "You may have both," answered Stalker, "by joining us. If you go your own way you go as you are. Please yourselves."
Nothing could be more wild than this narrow winding pass which we followed for eight miles till we came to the Duke's forest lodge. Here were waiting for us a most picturesque group in full Highland dress: the head stalker, the head shepherd, the kennel keepers with their dogs in leashes, the piper, etc., etc.
Deer-stalking, where the sportsman has to reckon on the wind, and its curious twists and turns in valleys and round rocks, would be a very near approach to it did the stalker stalk alone. But all this work is usually done for him by an attendant, a native Highlander; and this man really does pit his intelligence against that of the stag.
As he spoke the robber-chief put one of his heavy boots on the little finger of Pat Flinders's left hand, and well-nigh broke it in springing on to the log in question! A peculiarly Irish howl all but escaped from poor Flinders's lips. "I see," said Stalker, after a few moments. "There's enough of us to attack a camp twice the size. Now we must look sharp.
I was my own stalker, taking a couple of gillies for the ponies, but finding the deer for myself always the most difficult part of the sport and stalking them for myself. I may here observe that, not very long after I married, qualms of conscience smote me as to the justifiability of killing, AND WOUNDING, animals for amusement's sake. The more I thought of it, the less it bore thinking about.
To the amazement of his companions, he addressed a speech to Stalker in language so broken with stuttering and stammering that the marauders around could scarcely avoid laughing, though their chief seemed to be in no mood to tolerate mirth.
"But he thought he was right" said Betty; and then she blushed with vexation at having been led by impulse even to appear to justify her lover. But Paul took no notice. "It matters not," said he, "for it happens that you have found us almost on the wing, Westly. I knew full well that this fellow Buxley " "They call him Stalker, if you mean the robber chief" interrupted Fred. "Pooh!
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