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Show DANGER IN PERFECTION. A Prince and a Baron Imitated a Stag v Up to the Killing Point. It would be difficult to find on record a stranger hunting a'dventure than that experienced by Prince Hohenlohe, son of the German chancellor, jp-M?, Baron together to t-h0ot etoga' aiB? eed to decoy the amfa""by iiivu, jg their call on a epecial horn. ' The hunters separated, each accompanied by a gamekeeper, game-keeper, and went in different directions. During the course of the day they approached ap-proached each other, and each heard the other's decoy call and believed a stately stag was before him. Imitating the heavy steps of the animal, they noisily drew still nearer. The imitation of the steps and call was so well done that they finally arrived within ten paces of each other without perceiving their mistake. The thicket was so dense that they could not see through it. Both stood still, repeating the challenge from time to time. Each still firmly believed that he was within a few paces of a real stag. At last the prince, tired of wait-ing, wait-ing, fired thrice rapidly in the direction of the supposed game. The first bullet glanced off the cartridge belt of Baron Vietinghoff, the second struck his watch and sprang off, the third fell dead from his pocketbook well filled with papers. The young baron, though hit three times, stood unwounded. He was so convinced con-vinced that not his fellow hunter, bat a stag, was before him that he attributed attribut-ed the shots to the explosion of cartridges car-tridges in his belt and busied himself unfastening his belt for the purpose of throwing it away. The astonishment of both when they at last found out what had happened was great. Berlin Special. |