THE LONG TRAIL 



sure he never spent more time and eJBPort 

 on the most difficult stalk after some 

 coveted trophy in the West or in Africa. 

 Father's hunting experiences had been 

 confined to the United States, but he had 

 taken especial interest in reading about 

 Africa, the sportsman's paradise. When 

 we were small he would read us incidents 

 from the hunting books of Roualeyn Gor- 

 don Gumming, or Samuel Baker, or 

 Drummond, or Baldwin. These we al- 

 ways referred to as "I stories," because 

 they were told in the first person, and 

 when we were sent to bed we would clamor 

 for just one more, a petition that was 

 seldom denied. Before we were old 

 enough to appreciate the adventures we 

 were shown tihe pictures, and, through 

 Cornwallis Harris's beautiful colored 

 prints in the Portraits of Game and Wild 

 Animals of Southern Africa, we soon 

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