LEAVE FOR ENGLAND. 265 



Just after Christmas I received letters which made it 

 necessary for me to go east, so I had to give up my intention 



of joining F in the mountains, where he remained till 



early in the spring, killing as many deer as he wanted and a 

 fair number of elk, and then he returned south and I went 

 back to England. I sold " Polly " to him ; but it grieved me 

 very much to part with her, as I felt I was parting with an 

 old friend. 



