THE CAMP FIRE. 



H. A. L., "THE OLD SHEKARRY." 



"THE MOENING POST," January 3, 1867. 



THE CAMP FIRE. 



By H. A. L., " The Old Shekakey." 



The "Old Shekarry " once more emerges from Ms retirement, and gives 

 to his former comrades another literary keepsake — a keepsake, too, that 

 will be treasured for many a long year to come for its genuine simplicity 

 and unaffected pathos. In the " Hunting Grounds of the Old World " 

 H. A. L. recorded his adventures by " flood and field : " he climbed the 

 gigantic Himalayan snow-peaks with his reader, and pointed out to him, in 

 language full of poetry, the sublimity and awful grandeur of that most mag- 

 nificent of Nature's pictures ; he took him by the hand and led him through 

 the jungly malarious swamps of the Terai, and showed him the tiger in his 

 lair with the mangled bones of his victims strewed around ; he mounted him 

 on a swift Arab and took him, spear in hand, scouring helter-skelter across 

 velvety maidans, over nullahs, and into mango topes after " a rattling tusker;" 

 in fact the old sportsman showed what Indian wild life really was, and 

 his volume was received by " travelled " and " untravelled" with equal ap- 

 preciation. In the book now under notice, however, he depicts camp-lite 

 under difierent circumstances. The wild beasts of the jungle were his foes 

 then ; now he stands face to face with enemies of his own species. The 

 volume is a collection of songs written at different periods during the Eus- 



