Aug. 6, 1910.] 
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A PROPHETIC PEEP. 
An, well! The day is over-—Christmas Day, 
1959, and my hundred and twenty-ninth birth¬ 
day—and I, a tough, hale old boy, feeling, save 
for the periodical twinges of rheumatism and a 
certain slight flabbiness of muscle which none 
can avoid after reaching the age ob a hundred 
and twenty or thereabout, as fit as a dozen 
fiddles, and good for all a man of fifty could 
do before those magic million-microbed choco¬ 
lates were given into the hands of a disease- 
stricken world just over fifty years ago. 
What a blessing to the individual the dis¬ 
covery has proved! One lives on and on; one 
goes through life knowing he has only two pos¬ 
sible forms of death before him—-accident or 
painless senile decay—instead of the possible, 
nay probable, torture of disease which would 
have been his in earlier years. One does not 
now begin to think of the end till over twice 
three-score years and ten. 
Sitting with my port and walnuts before me, I 
find my thoughts flowing pleasingly onward. 
My musings are many. What changes come 
about in this world of ours! It seems strange 
to think that less than fifty years ago it was 
actually illegal to kill game on Christmas Day. 
Now, of course, it is one of the most important 
days in the sportsman’s year—the opening day 
of the pheasant-shooting season—the day 
equivalent in nature to what was Oct. 1 before 
Halley’s comet came along and knocked our 
seasons out of tune with the calendar to the 
extent of eighty-six days. Our hoary old earth 
seems to fare just as well under her new con¬ 
ditions, however, as she did under the old ones. 
I have had a delightful day’s sport—not a 
heavy bag, truly, but sport fine enough for the 
gods themselves. The days of heavy bags are 
over. I, for one, do not regret them. I would 
rather have an hour in the ’plane with my gun 
and kill a single woodpigeon after an exciting 
course than stand for a whole day beside the 
coverts, as one did fifty years ago, and fire a 
hundred cartridges at birds driven unerringly 
within shot. And such poor, tame, grand¬ 
motherly shots as one had then! Extremes of 
age met in my gun ’plane at 9:30 this morning— 
on the one hand, dear old Colonel Blazer, a year 
my senior, and myself; on the other hand, my 
great-great-great-grandson, Tommy, aged thir¬ 
teen. In a weak moment, a few days ago, I had 
promised that I would give him his first ex¬ 
perience in a gun ’plane on Christmas Day. A 
wilder, more mischievous young devil never 
•sucked a million-microbes chocolate. 
Tommy’s first act when we were well on the 
wing was to give my ’planeur’s elbow a punch, 
which jerked his hand clean off the free com¬ 
pensating wheel, the ’plane taking a tilt that 
would have ended our careers for ever if Wolf., 
the ’planeur, had not succeeded in clutching the 
wheel in time and righting our keel almost by a 
miracle. Colonel Blazer took him by the collar, 
and, in spite of vigorous remonstrances, hauled 
him to the stern of the ’plane and planted him 
down beside the vacuum retriever. 
Then our sport began. Peering through the 
high-power eye-piece of the prismatic camera 
Dbscura, without which no gun ’plane is more 
than half complete, I detected a cock pheasant 
sprinting across a stubble toward the shelter of 
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