CHAPTER XI. 
THE TEXAN HUNTRESS. 
My dissertation of the last chapter upon the Fox and Fox 
Hunting, though strictly germain to the general theme, has 
caused me in some measure to lose sight of the individuality 
of the Hunter-Naturalist in one of his favorite sports. Though 
T have turned aside, through many pages, to present nobler 
exemplars of the character, still I must be here permitted to 
resume that broken thread of personal narrative, in which I 
commenced to recount something of its humble and inner ex- 
periences on the rough highway of development; and now, 
evil, and wild, and stern as they may be, I shall continue to 
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