CH. XXV. OLD SHEPHERD. 95 



spoke very little English, but understood it well 

 enough. The old shepherd listened with great 

 interest, the more so from having been a somewhat 

 famous stalker in his own time, and now a great 

 lamenter of the good old time when deer and black 

 cattle were more plentiful, and sheep comparatively 

 few to what they are in the present day. 



