194 CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



I intended to start early the next morning for 

 Hohenburg, and to spend a day or two there; and 

 Reitsch wanted me to return in about a fortnight, 

 kindly promising that if I did so I should shoot a 

 good buck. 



" By that time the rutting season will have begun, 

 and the old bucks be on the move ; they will come 

 out of their lurking-places, and we shall be sure to 

 get a shot. Only come/' he said, " and if you were 

 to shoot a good buck in my circuit I should be right 

 well pleased, only come/ 7 



Tempting as the proposal was, I was obliged to 

 resist, having arranged to return to Kreuth, if any- 

 thing was to be done there, to go out again on the 

 mountains, and then to visit the worthy old forester 

 at Fischbachau. By daybreak the next morning I 

 set off, and in an hour or two reached Hohen- 

 burg, rising a little over the picturesque village 

 of Langgries. Never before, I think, did I so ap- 

 preciate the " creature comforts " of this life as now. 

 After the detestably bad inn at Kreuth, the broad, 

 lofty corridors, the large cheerful bed-room looking 

 out upon the lawn, the neat arrangements, the nicely 

 served breakfast, and the observant attendance, 

 mindful of everything, forgetting nothing, all was 

 so delicious a change, that it seemed to me as if 

 until that morning I had never understood what such 

 things were worth. How did all that I had hitherto 

 looked on as mere common comforts now appear 

 luxuries fit only for a Sardanapalus ! 



