PREFACE Vll 



managed to get up to the front, and was attached, 

 during the action, to the staff of the officer com- 

 manding the Eoyal Artillery ; many present at the 

 fight have spoken of his signal use, and the gallantry 

 he displayed that day. 



It seems strange that 'Fate' should have 

 directed that his life should be spared then, only a 

 short time afterwards to fall a victim to that other 

 enemy, enteric fever. 



The Author states, in his Introduction, how it 

 happened that he began to write these pages for 

 pubUcation ; he wrote the latter chapters on board 

 the ship which took him to South Africa, and, 

 doubtless, would have brought the book out him- 

 self, had he returned home. 



I do not know by what title the Author intended 

 to call his book ; but it seems fitting to call it by 

 the name seen on the title-page. 



With less modesty than the writer, I think I am 

 not wrong in saying that, even if you, Eeader, are 

 not of the younger generation of hunting-men, many 

 ideas of worth and help will present themselves to 

 you. His friends and acquaintances will, I believe, 



