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though I have known plenty of the latter " real 

 white men." ' 



With this sketch of a tragedy in the wild West 

 I will conclude my extracts from my father's 

 correspondence, and merely add a few letters written 

 by him to his well-beloved newspaper the Field. 

 It will be easily seen from internal evidence that 

 these letters were elicited either by some one uttering 

 to him a heresy, or by some one who touched a note 

 of sympathy to which his memory responded. After 

 his hunting the Plains with Lord Dunraven he was 

 with him down in the Southern States, and the 

 following note on ' Family Fish Life in Florida ' 

 appeared in the Field for June i6, 1888 : — 



*"G. W. H.'s" mention of the "saw-fish" in 

 his pleasant paper on " Tarpon Fishing in Florida," 

 put me in mind of a little bit of family fish life I 

 once had the chance of seeing in the waters of the 

 Indian river, which induced me to believe that those 

 strange old-world-looking fishes were not without 

 some amount of both maternal and paternal affection. 

 Paddling about one day in a small " dug-out," as our 

 manner was, we came across a shallow bay, in which 

 were disporting themselves some half a dozen young 

 saw-fish, all of the same length — some two feet — 

 but each furnished with a perfect facsimile of the 

 ancestral saw. Across the mouth of the bay cruised 

 a pair of saws, some ten or twelve feet long, doing 

 steady " sentry-go " backwards and forwards, always 

 passing each other about the centre, and evidently 



