2o8 THE GREATEST RUN 



sole survivor of it makes its memory all 

 the dearer, though I regret to this day that 

 I had no companion during the last twenty- 

 five minutes to support my evidence, or to 

 discuss with me in after years its wonders. 

 I trust that in attempting to describe it, 

 if I seem to be utterly devoid of modesty 

 and to be blowing loud blasts on my own 

 horn, it will be remembered that every man 

 has some dav in a lono- life, in which he is 

 conscious that he has had the best of it. 

 This was my day, and I certainly felt at 

 the end of it that it would have been 

 worth risking one's life for ; it gave me 

 the sensation that comes now and a^ain 

 in every life, of not having lived in vain. 

 The followinor account is for the most 

 part from my diary, written while I 



