MY FIRST IBEX 45 



saying quite quietly, " Sahib, you can trust 

 a hillman with a beard " ; while I felt very 

 small as I remembered my thought of the 

 morning, " nervous old fool," though with 

 a friendly pat on his shoulder I said, " It 

 would have been hard lines if it had se- 

 lected the very two minutes we were cross- 

 ing it to go and do that." 



He understood and accepted the apology, 

 and we went down the hill. 



