Colonel C. Rivers Bulkely 



His sufferings towards the last rather precluded seeing 

 company, and, appropriately enough, almost his last visitor was 

 Mr. Selous, who was brought to see him by his old friend and 

 neighbour Lord Delamere, and who had gone out to South 

 Africa as a result of reading " the Lion's " book, just as in like 

 manner the latter had been fascinated by the published 

 experiences of Gordon Gumming. 



That "the Lion" was possessed of something quite out of 

 the common in the way of nerve, the following anecdote will 

 prove. On returning to his cottage late one night and 

 repairing to his chamber, he found, to his surprise, a dead 

 man in his bed. 



Under such circumstances, it is not too much to say that 

 nine men out of ten would to a certainty have bolted. Not so 

 Billy Baldwin, who merely laid himself down on the floor, 

 and slept soundly until morning. There had been an accident, 

 it appeared, and a man, badly injured, had been carried into 

 the cottage, where he died, and Billy's housekeeper, being 

 frightened, had gone off to sleep in another cottage without 

 thinking it necessary to advise her master of the presence of 

 the unwelcome guest. 



COLONEL C. RIVERS BULKELY 



There is probably no profession one could name, and certainly 

 no pastime, which entails more hard work before proficiency 

 can be arrived at than steeplechase riding, and amongst the 

 famous horsemen of the past still with us — gentlemen riders 

 in the strict sense of the word — for whom the term " amateur " 



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