A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 146: what you’re looking at

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138 A STUDY IN SCARLET. shoulder, and set out in search of whatever chance might throw in his way. Looking back, he saw the old man and the young girl crouching over the blazing fire, while the three animals stood motionless in the background. Then the intervening rocks hid them from his view. He walked for a couple of miles through one ravine after another without success, though from the marks upon the bark of the trees, and other indications, he judged that there were numerous bears in the vicinity. At last, after two or three hours’ fruitless search, he was thinking of turning back in despair, when casting his eyes upward he saw a sight which sent a thrill of pleasure through his heart. On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns. ‘The big-horn —for so it is called—was acting, probably, as a guar- dian over a flock which were invisible to the hunter; . but fortunately 1t was heading in the opposite direction, and had not perceived him. Lying on his back, he rested his rifle upon a rock, and took a long and steady aim before drawing the trigger. ‘The animal sprung into the air, tottered for a moment upon the edge of the precipice, and then came crashing down into the valley beneath. The creature was too unwieldy to lift, so the hunter contented himself with cutting away one haunch ani part of the flank. With this trophy over his should:r. he hastened. to retrace his steps, for the evening wa: already drawing in. He had hardly started, howeve:. before he reslized the difficulty which faced him. [nx Eomicbooks Ge