268 GUN, RIFLE, AND HOUND. 



ponies, and it was long after dark before we got 

 home. 



Of course, I was glad my guest should have had 

 some luck, but it certainly was a fair example of the 

 irony of sport. The very brute after whom I had 

 toiled so long on a hot day, falls to the rifle of another, 

 who had only walked an hour or so on a cool winter 

 morning to get him. On the whole I always look 

 back to it as an instance of very Hard Luck. 



