Chapter X. 



OLD FRIENDS. 



T HAVE paid tribute to several old friends 

 wlio have been associated with me in 

 various experiences during my long hunting 

 career. No man has been blessed with friends 

 more worthy, staunch and true than it has 

 been my good fortune to know, and I should 

 be churlish, indeed, if I did not record my great 

 appreciation of those sterling good fellows. 

 Thinking of them all again brings a tinge of 

 sadness, for many of the comrades with whom 

 I have ridden, with whom I have afterwards 

 dined, and with whom, in the evening of our 

 days, I have fought over again so many of our 

 battles and achievements, have now passed 

 into the great Unknown. Shall I be thought 

 irreverent if I express the hope that there will 

 be found plenty of good hunting in that other 



