TRIUMPHAL RETURN 23 



pleasant week's sport adieu, with three 

 rousing cheers for the Queen, and Broad 

 Eiver shooting-grounds, shouldered the guns, 

 and started on foot for the main post-road, 

 the teams following. As we expected to see 

 >artridges on our road home, we loaded 

 accordingly, and secured thirteen before 

 reaching town. At 3.45 the teams were out 

 on the road; the town team was reloaded, 

 carrying the contents of both, and it was 

 loaded. Then we continued our homeward 

 march, all of us riding. We created no little 

 excitement passing through the settlements 

 of Broad Eiver, Hunt's Point, and White 

 Point, while our approach had been heralded 

 by teams going into town, and we were met 

 at its entrance by an army of boys, with a 

 pleasant greeting by scores of friends, as we 

 passed along to my residence. We disposed 

 of sufficient game to pay all our expenses, 

 remembered our hosts of friends with dainty 

 morsels, had a week of rarely equalled sport, 

 and without an accident apart from Jack's 

 wetting. May a trip, as happy in its results 

 as this, be in store for each and every one of 

 my sporting readers I 



