"But I have been told that you have the most wonderful sight of any man in these parts, which makes it odd that at three hundred yards you should mistake a man upon his hands and knees for a vilderbeeste calf." "Does the Captain think, then, that I wished to murder him; especially," he added, "after I shook his hand this morning ?" "I don't know what I think," answered John, looking straight into Muller's eyes, which fell before his own.

"All I know is that your curious mistake very nearly cost me my life.

Look here!" and he took a lock of his brown hair out of the crown of his perforated hat and showed it to the other.
"Ay, it was very close.

Let us thank God that you escaped." "It could not well have been closer, _Meinheer_.

I hope that, for your own sake and for the sake of the people who go out shooting with you, you will not make such a mistake again.