32 SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



folly you begin to wonder why you could not 

 have bought your tur's head in Regent Street 

 and only left your snug bedroom for a good 

 English breakfast at 8.30 a.m. 



Luckily the hardships of sport are like 

 the chill of the morning tub, only to be 

 dreaded so long as you linger on the brink, 

 but full of fresh life the moment you make 

 the first plunge, and resulting in a glorious 

 glow and a healthy appetite for the comforts 

 of life and breakfast when the hardships or 

 the tub have been endured. The first foot- 

 ball match of the season, when you have once 

 passed five-and-twenty, is something of a 

 trial ; a course of training under Messrs. Ned 

 Donelly and ' Bat ' Mullins, with a likelihood 

 of a severe hiding from a thirteen stone man 

 in public to wind up with, is not quite the 

 form of amusement that a sybarite would 

 choose ; but a really hard day's mountaineering 

 on bread and water, beginning at midnight 



