A VOYAGE AROUND THE ROOM 



business and no one's else. So what there is in 

 my own little medicine bundle, without which I 

 would not think of going on a big-game hunt, is 

 my own secret. All I know is that it usually brings 

 home the bacon, and that without it I am lacking 

 in confidence of success. This is not to be called 

 superstition. You ought not to call any man's re- 

 ligion a superstition; nor ought you to make too 

 light of the things he calls his own and which he 

 has found good. 



For that matter, you ought not to jest or sneer 

 at any of this plunder which you find stored away 

 sacredly, and sometimes secretly, by scores and 

 hundreds of sportsmen who in public are successful 

 citizens and men of substance, but who in private 

 are no more than pirates, no more than savages, no 

 more than boys. 



