A HUNTERS LONGINGS, 3 



spirits, born of a good digestion, nursed on 

 keen mountain air, spurred into action by 

 difficulties to overcome, rendered buoyant by 

 hard-earned successes, flao- and sicken under 

 the influence of ease, idleness, and English 

 feeding, which latter means about twice as 

 many meals per diem as any healthy human 

 being requires. 



Beautiful as the forest deity is when you 

 are basking in her smiles, with game in sight 

 on the hillside, or at your feet, as you lie tired 

 but happy in the glow of your blazing pine 

 logs, she seems never so fair, never so irre- 

 sistible, as when you dream of her, on a day 

 in June, your nostrils choked, and your eyes 

 blinded by the dust that is to be found east 

 of Temple Bar ; your ears deafened by the 

 rattle of the traffic, your senses dazed by the 

 passing and repassmg thousands, and your 

 fist clenched in a scarcely controlled desire to 

 knock down any of the hundred and one black - 



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