CHAPTER V. 



FAEMING OPERATIONS LAND TUETLE AND WOODPECKEE WITH THE 

 CEIMSON HEAD A HUNDEED NIGHT-HAWKS OE GOAT-SUCKEES AN 

 ENGLISH FACE TO ST LOTJIS MB AND MES SULHYANT BEAUTI 

 FUL SCENEET GEEAT VAEIETY OF FOLIAGE TUEKEY BUZZAED 

 MAMMON THE GEEAT CTJEVE CUEIOUS EAILWAT AEEANGEMENTS 

 A BULL CHAEGING AN ENGINE A SHILLING'S WOETH OF WATEE 

 THE EOUGH CUSTOMEE. 



ON the following day, Saturday, . it was arranged that 

 mine host, myself, and Mr Burnet, should start by train, 

 and, in easy distance, reach a portion of the forest where 

 game was said to abound. Brutus and Chance were to 

 accompany me, and mine host was to take with him his 

 very good-looking setter, while George Bromfield, in 

 case of a wounded deer, was to have my lurcher Bar in a 

 leash. We started about ten in the morning of a splendid 

 but intensely hot day, and on reaching a few huts near 

 the residence of that most hospitable and intelligent 

 gentleman, Major B. F. Bell, of Bell's Mill, we depo 

 sited our basket of luncheon at the little station, and 

 proceeded on foot up the rails for some distance, and 

 then broke away into the cornfields and forest. Having 



