CHAPTER XVI 



CECILY SHOOTS A RHINOCEROS 



The day shall not be up so soon as I, 

 To try the fair adventure of the morn 



King John 



We are blessed in this man, as I may say, even blessed 



Winter's Tale 



The sun shall not be up so soon as I. Indeed, I had 

 a whole half-hour's start of him, while I put my house in 

 order. I prepared in my own way for the fair adven- 

 ture of the morn, and told Cecily where to look for 

 my will. She was in wild spirits, and chaffed me no 

 end. She saw to her armoury, and asked me over and 

 over to eat more. But I said I felt exactly like a man 

 about to be hanged, of whom you read in the next 

 day's papers : " The prisoner made a most excellent 

 breakfast." 



Out we started, Clarence, the Somali who joined 

 our forces at the spot where the camels tried a course 

 of mud baths, four hunters, and two syces. We 

 followed the old spoor for miles, but it was at last 

 apparent that the pachyderm we were after had by 

 this time travelled far out of our ken. We sat down 

 to cogitate, and the hunters went off spooring on a 

 detour of their own. 



In the thick jungle we disturbed a few baby 



