Try again an' aim at his legs." Roy now took a quicker aim and pulled trigger.

A puff of dust right at the feet of the buck showed where Roy's lead had struck this time.

With a single bound, wonderful to see, the big deer was out of sight behind trees and brush.

The does leaped after him.
"Doggone the luck!" ejaculated Roy, red in the face, as he worked the lever of his rifle.

"Never could shoot downhill, nohow!" His rueful apology to the girls for missing brought a merry laugh from Bo.
"Not for worlds would I have had you kill that beautiful deer!" she exclaimed.
"We won't have venison steak off him, that's certain," remarked Dale, dryly.