While I was listening, I heard the bushes breaking still lower down, and started to run there.
"As I was going 'long, I seed two elks burst out of the Harricane 'bout one hundred and thirty or forty yards below me.

There was an old buck and a doe.

I stopped, waited till they got into a clear place, and as the old fellow made a leap, I raised old Bet, pulled trigger, and she spoke out.

The smoke blinded me so, that I couldn't see what I did; but as it cleared away, I caught a glimpse of only one of them going through the bushes; so I thought I had the other.

I went up, and there lay the old buck kicking.