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cutlets and chicken curry with fierce 



avidity. 



Becoming so strong and vigorous we 



talked of a little shooting excursion, but 

 it would have to come off some time hence, 

 for as yet, neither of us could have walked 

 five miles if our lives had depended upon 

 it ; but we did not think it improbable 

 that we might be able to start in a month, 

 and it would take us very nearly that time 

 to prepare ourselves for the excursion. I 

 had to write for my gun and also for the 

 piebald pony to be sent up, with several 

 of my servants, but some of them had to be 

 discharged. Altogether I made my estab- 

 lishment into a working one, and I asked 

 a friend, who was one of my sporting 

 chums, to procure me three or four good 

 dogs, which were to be started off to me 

 at once. Some of these common, half- 



