

SUMMER 



THE gamekeeper has a way of putting things to 



surprising and ingenious uses. Usually he carries 



a dog-lead concealed somewhere about his 



A person a yard or two of string attached to 



Keeper , . v , ., . , , 



Chorister a simple spring clip ; and this lead serves 



a hundred purposes apart from restraining 

 dogs. One case we remember well, where a dog- 

 lead saved a situation. The vocal services of a 

 keeper had been impressed for a festival of choirs ; 

 but when he arrived, just before the procession was 

 timed to start, it was found that the one cassock 

 which would encircle his figure was so long that he 

 could walk in it only with danger of falling. Of 

 course there was no string anywhere to be found, 

 except in the shape of the dog-lead. The dog- 

 lead saved the day, and the robed procession started 

 off, lustily singing. It chanced that the keeper was 

 one of the two leading choirmen, and when he noticed 

 that his companion was rather headstrong in taking 

 a corner, " Heel, will yer," he was heard to mutter, 

 absent-mindedly, as he flicked his friend with the 

 snap of his dog-lead from a besurpliced arm-hole ; 

 " heel, sir, heel." 



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