108 TALES AND TRAITS OF SPORTING LIFE. 



that poor remnant of whisker on to his shrunken cheek. 

 Take heed of this, ye knowing youngsters^ as you swag- 

 ger by in all the pride of health and manhood, with 

 n laugh on your lips at *' the old svv'ell. '' Bear in 

 inind what he was, and what you will be. Think 

 of the pace he has gone, and how, that in his prime 

 there was hardly one of you could have lived along- 

 side of him! 



