30 SHIKAR SKETCHES. 



when I left India the following year. More than 

 a decade and a half has now passed since then, 

 but I look back with pleasure through the mists 

 of years on those joyous hog-hunting days, which 

 seem ever fresh and bright in one's memory, only 

 darkened by the loss of old and tried friends, with 

 whom it was a joy and a pleasure to talk of 



* The chases we had shared, 

 And the tushes we had won.' 



