I knew they would come still nearer; and I lay watching the motions of those pretty creatures.

I took notice of their light handsome forms, their smooth slender limbs, their cinnamon-coloured backs, and white bellies, with the band of chestnut along each side.

I looked at the lyre-shaped horns of the bucks, and above all, at the singular flaps on their croup, that unfolded each time that they leaped up, displaying a profusion of long silky hair, as white as snow itself.
"All these points I noticed, and at length, tired of admiring them, I singled out a fine-looking doe--for I was thinking of my dinner, and knew that doe-venison was the most palatable.
"After aiming carefully, I fired.

The doe fell, but, to my astonishment, the others did not run off.

A few of the foremost only galloped back a bit, or bounded up into the air; but they again set to browsing quite unconcerned, and the main body advanced as before! "I loaded as quickly as I could, and brought down another,--this time a buck--but as before without frightening the rest! "I proceeded to load for the third time; but before I had finished, the front ranks had passed on both sides of me, and I found myself in the midst of the herd! "I saw no need for covering myself any longer behind the bush, but rose to my knees, and, firing at the nearest, brought it down also.