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as we are both of us in fair condition, I shall 

 probably decline on your account and my own the 

 offer now made me of a mount on one of these, 

 and when my rifle, luncheon-bag, and waterproof 

 overcoat have been transferred from the vehicle to 

 the hands and shoulders of my now smiling and 

 assiduous attendants, I join Donald, and commence 

 the ascent of the hill along a skilfully engineered 

 path, the steep zigzags of which we can trace far 

 above us. 



Later in life we shall not be so proud or so 

 humane, and the poor pony will have to pant up 

 with some twelve stone extra on his back. A 

 deer-saddle is not an easy-chair, and where the 

 path is at all steep it is rather harder work to hang 

 on it than to walk ; but when mid-life is past, if 

 you still affect the hill, you will not despise it. 

 Although, as I said, in fair condition, I am not 

 quite willing to go Donald's pace up the hill. Slowly 

 and easily as his long legs seem to move, they get 

 somehow over the ground in a fashion which, in a 



