J44 THE FINEST SPORT 



down for hours where I tell him. Even he 

 win probably be a hindrance to me durlng- 

 the day. Let the first glow of sunrise find 

 me lying- with ready telescope, on some 

 rocky grat, in some recess of which I have 

 passed the night as best I may, rolled in a 

 blanket which the keeper brought up yester- 

 day, and which he will take away to-day, 

 together with the etna which made the cocoa, 

 which has just warmed my stiffened limbs. 



There they are ! One, two, six, eight of 

 them. I needn't watch these, for it is too 

 early in the year for a good buck to be with 

 a herd. Presently the glass falls on a 

 second herd, then on two darker coloured 

 beasts, — bucks, no doubt, — but we will wait 



1 It is only fair to Mr. Carl Zeiss to say, that since I became 

 acquainted with his prismatic glasses I have almost aban- 

 doned my telescope for them. 



