VERY TRYING TO THE TEMPER. \2ig_ 



when I ordered a halt, for the sand was very heavy 

 and the day becoming excessively warm. While 

 thus waiting, I perceived Chummy a short distance 

 behind, the rapidity of his walk indicating plainly 

 that he was desirous of overtaking us. Before he 

 had got over the last two hundred yards I could see 

 at a glance that something was wrong, for the native 

 who carried his gun and game had an indecision iq 

 his progression that said plainly "the further I keep 

 from my employer the better;" while again, some 

 distance in rear of him, came three of the dogs, of 

 whom the pointer was one, whose expressions and 

 manners were so indisputably marked " shamefacey," 

 that there could not exist in the beholder's mind one 

 moment of doubt but that their conscience pricked 

 them for some act of ingratitude which hunger or a 

 love of mischief had induced them to perpetrate. 



The annoyances my friend had been subjected 

 to were soon told. Out of the eight shots he had 

 fired, six guinea-fowl had been killed ; of these he 

 was only able to secure two, for between the grey- 

 hounds and the pointer the other birds had been 

 torn to pieces and eaten right before him. More- 

 over, the gun-bearer, in spite of every entreaty to 

 save the birds, was so slow in acting, that I fully 

 think that Chummy believed that he was a particeps 

 criminis in the dogs' offences, and therefore loth 

 to use any extra exertion to put a termination to 

 their tantalizing game. Another grievance against 



