His Personal Appearance. 



hitting it gently upwards against the rim. Nor must 

 his keys be forgotten. The paths through the pre- 

 serves, where they debouch on a public lane or road, 

 are closed with high-sparred wicket gates, well 

 pitched to stand the weather, and carefully locked, 

 and of course he has a key. His watch, made on 

 purpose for those who walk by night, tells him the 

 time in the densest darkness of the woods. On 

 pressing a spring and holding it near the ear, it 

 strikes the hour last past, then the quarters which 

 have since elapsed ; so that even when he cannot see 

 an inch before his face he knows the time within 

 fifteen minutes at the outside, which is near enough 

 for practical purposes. 



In personal appearance he would be a tall man 

 were it not that he has contracted a slight stoop in 

 the passage of the years, not from weakness or decay 

 of nature, but because men who walk much lean for- 

 ward somewhat, which has a tendency to round the 

 shoulders. The weight of the gun, and often of a 

 heavy game-bag dragging downwards, has increased 

 this defect of his figure, and, as is usual after a certain 

 age, even with those who lead a temperate life, he 

 begins to show signs of corpulency. But these short- 

 comings only slightly detract from the manliness of 

 his appearance, and in youth it is easy to see that he 



