ON THE PLAINS 



To announce the decidedly meagre score of the 

 august sportsman was not to be thought of! Ap- 

 proaching one of the other guests, and drawing him 

 aside, he whispered : " Pardon me, but have you 

 any objection to my adding forty of your hares and 



thirty of your pheasants to 's total ? " " Do it 



by all means," replied the other guest ; and, as two 

 or three more sportsmen were equally good-natured, 

 the gentleman in question thus obtained the nominal 

 title of jagd-konig \ 



Whether he fondly imagined that he had killed 

 all the game that he was credited with, or whether 

 he knew that the obliging keeper had " doctored " 

 the figures, I cannot say. 



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