174 SPORT. 



I will not follow Homer's example and describe 

 our feast ; enough to say that craving nature was 

 appeased without bread, salt, vegetable, or condi- 

 ment of any kind, and that after a draught of 

 deliciously iced water — my brandy flask had been 

 exhausted long ago — we drag the stag into a 

 hollow between two upright rocks, and pile huge 

 stones on his carcase to preserve it from the 

 powerful and ravenous " glutton," who will wind 

 and hunt up to him for miles, tying my white 

 pocket handkerchief on his horn, the only portion 

 of him left protruding, to keep off equally intru- 

 sive and destructive birds oi prey from his head 

 and eyes. 



There we leave him alone in his glory '* to be 

 called for " to-morrow, when the old hunter will 

 arrange for a couple of ponies to be waiting at 

 the nearest point practicable for cavalry, to receive 

 him, piecemeal, alas ! for, even with the two or 

 three sturdy auxiliaries whom he proposes to take 

 with him, he will be unable to convey him over 



