XIV OBITUARIES. 



philanthropio and other good works; and his gentle courteous 

 manners were those of the okl school. As has been stated, he 

 never lost the spell which Nova Scotia had cast upon him. 

 In fact, he always cherished affection for places and persons 

 with which he had been associated, and never forgot an 

 associate, however humble. His old Micmac guides, the noted 

 John Williams,* Joe Cope, Francis Paul, Christopher Paul, 

 and others, were never forgotten and often referred to, as 

 well as those of his own class. The Indian welcome as he 

 paused at the wigwam s entrance, "Come in, Hardee, bon 

 soul", echoed sweetly in his ears for fifty years, with the 

 remembrance of the weird night-cry of the loon on the lake, 

 and the spiritual evensong of the hermit thrush. 



He was a keen sportsman of the clean English school, 

 elated by the excitement of the chase, but never taking an 

 unfair advantage of an animal. His chief delight was moose- 

 hunting and fly-fishing for salmon and trout. His name will 

 go down in our sporting annals with those of his friend Col. 

 W. Chearnley, Dr. J. B. Gilpin, Charles Hallock, Lt. Francis 

 Duncan, Dy". Asst. Com. Gen. F. C. Blunt, F. H. D. Vieth, 

 F. W. Blaiklock, Capt. Champagne L'Estrange, Hon. 

 Charles Alexmder, E. G. Stayner, Charles A. Stayner, Dr. 

 B. W. C. Deeble, the erratic Lt. J M. Macgowan, A. P. 

 Silver, some relatives of my own, and other well-known local 

 sportsmen, men of varying temperament but each with the 

 deep-seated love of clean sport. 



As is often the case with true sportsmen, an intense love 

 of all nature seems to have been very largely at the bottom of 

 Hardy's love for sport and the forest. Sport without its 

 wild surroundings would have been much less attractive to 

 him. Through all his books runs that love of Nature — not 

 for sport alone, but for herself — which was always a power in 

 his life, and remained so till death. His opportunities for 

 studying the habits of animals in the forest were second to 

 none, and he described with rare discrimination and the ut- 

 most accuracy what he observed. He was thus an accurate 

 field naturalist, but he hud not the skill in drawing up tech- 

 nical descriptions which Dr. J. B. Gilpin pos.sessed. He was 



* Honest .I.)hn Williams', most expert of Micmac guides, died at the Indinn Reserva- 

 tion near Shubenaradie. N. S., ab )ut 1890 or 1S0;J. He was one of the Ruides selected to go 

 to the wo(k1s with Prince Arthur in ISdO. 



