Western field . the approach ofthis strange enemyand turning togaze out into thedizzy space beyondthe towering Tom advancednearer and nearerthe animal becamemore and more un-easy, now turningrapidly from hunt-er to lake and fromlake to , with allthe momentum itsone sound hind legcould- impart, itsprang out over thecliff. I saw it turn-ing over and overin its fearful fallfrom that tremen-dous height, andthe sight was abso-lutely sickening. Isaw it strike thesurface of the lake,splashing a greatshower of waterhigh in the air, and an instant later theboom of the heavy body
Western field . the approach ofthis strange enemyand turning togaze out into thedizzy space beyondthe towering Tom advancednearer and nearerthe animal becamemore and more un-easy, now turningrapidly from hunt-er to lake and fromlake to , with allthe momentum itsone sound hind legcould- impart, itsprang out over thecliff. I saw it turn-ing over and overin its fearful fallfrom that tremen-dous height, andthe sight was abso-lutely sickening. Isaw it strike thesurface of the lake,splashing a greatshower of waterhigh in the air, and an instant later theboom of the heavy body striking thewater echoed from mountain to mountainacross the valley like the discharge of aheavy cannon. Thus ended the career, bydeliberate suicide, of an animal which waseither crazy or a moral pervert. I have seen men die in many ways, butnever in all my experience have I seen any-thing so soul-sickening as the whizzing,,wheeling fiight of that strange goat throughseven hundred feet of space to
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