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THE BEST SEASON OX RECORD. 



hunting on paper. To Liin I need make no apology. 

 The many who may be enjoying equal sport elsewhere, 

 have their own recent experiences to feast upon. It may 

 oot be my fortune — very possibly will not be — to find 

 <3vcn such material as the above for pen or for personal 

 pleasure for some time to come. Why should I not be 

 allowed to make the most of it now ? Is there much 

 profanity in the old Latin's sentiment below ? Few of 

 us, to whom the vicissitudes of life past and present are 

 familiar, will be likely to assert that there is. 



Happy tile man, and happy hv alone, 



He who can call to-day his own. 



He who, secure within, can say, 



To-morrow, do thy worst, fur I ha\e lived tu-day. 



Be fair or foul, or rain or shine. 



The joys I have possessed, in spite of Fate, are mine. 



Not Heaven itself upon the past has ]iovver. 



But what has lieen, has lieen, and I have had my hour. 





nicf 



