22 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



" Eeally ? Well, I won't look back." 



After I changed the clothes we Henry's party 

 sat down to supper, and the " cartmen " and others of 

 the Englishman's outfit having arrived, they pitched 

 a couple of tents and started their fires. Their cook 

 then came in to make use of our cooking facilities to 

 prepare their supper. 



Having been in the saddle all day, and naturally 

 feeling very stiff and sore, I thought a sitz bath in hot 

 water would be just the thing to take the stiffness out, 

 provided I could find something to sit down in that 

 would hold water. Outside I had noticed a deep ob- 

 long pan, which was used for feeding the horses. It 

 was speedily washed out, and half filled with hot water 

 of the right temperature, and I once more undressed 

 and entered the improvised bathtub. 



I asked the Englishman's cook if Mrs. B was 



likely to come in before she was sent for. He said 

 "no," because she was seated before a good fire of her 

 own, and that supper wouldn't be ready for a quarter 

 of an hour, so that I should have plenty of time to get 

 the bath. Now here I sat perched in the upper berth 

 as upon a pedestal and as naked as Adam was before his 

 momentous fall from grace, when in walked Mrs. B . 



" Really, now, Mrs. B ," I said, " you mustn't look 



forward this time, but backward." 



So right about face was the word, and she sat down 

 laughing at the contretemps. 



