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loud tones and with profuse gesticulation on the 

 question of the nature and attributes of the Trinity, 

 which discussion, whatever convincing result it might 

 have had on either of their minds, had effectually 

 turned all the hares, for which reason, unmindful of 

 the cause, they had abandoned their guns. A merci- 

 ful Providence guarded the party ; though death with 

 levelled dart stalked beside us all day, no one fell. 

 The host, who especially bore a charmed life, used 

 to vanish occasionally, only to reappear suddenly at 

 unexpected places in front of the line and in the 

 direction of the hottest fire. He never spoke or gave 

 a warning signal of his whereabouts, but crept about 

 silently, like a red Indian ; and I myself, if I had not 

 even then observed the " sky line " rule as to ground 

 game above mentioned, should inevitably have slain 

 him on our way home on a little eminence on a gravel 

 walk in his own garden. He, however, did not err 

 from ignorance ; he knew his own risk, but was so 

 impervious to fear that he seemed to be a fatalist : 

 " Never mind me," he used to say, when even one of 



