n8 SPORTS AND ANECDOTES. 



I lost when they found me in my punt, and thought 

 as I was dead." The fact was that even the great 

 Sam Singer had forgotten one night to put the pin 

 into an iron ring that he tethered his gun with, and 

 on firing it it ran back, and drew what few teeth he 

 had, made his nose and mouth bleed, all but turned 

 him out of his boat, and left him insensible in the 

 bottom of it, where he was found and conveyed 

 home next morning. " But how did you manage 

 to forget to tether your gun properly ? " said I. 

 " You might have been killed outright. As it was 

 she played you an ugly trick/' " Yes," said Sam ; 

 "the ruling passion being strong in death. It 

 was an ugly trick ; but not half as bad as the trick 

 those fellows played me about my compass." 



