ABSTRACT
WHETHER I ever got another shot at those two chamois is doubtful; but certain it is that I only twice again saw two together, and then they disappeared. Possibly one was poached.
My next day made me amends for this failure. On one of his hunting days, we are told, Mr. J orrocks had cut himself in shaving, which he considered "werry symptomatic" of sport. On this principle (i.e. that the drawing of blood from the sportsman is likely to be followed by that of the game), I had every right to expect sport on this occasion. The day before, when tightening a tent-peg, I had brought the heavy mallet down on an unnoticed line, which had diverted the blow to my own physiognomy, almost entirely depriving my nose of its cuticle. Nevertheless, heedless of the risk of possible erysipelas from the combined effects of a broiling sun and the snow on my sore face (and, as a matter of fact, I did suffer very considerably), I started at eight O'clock, assuring my anxious spouse, who hated these solitB,ry expeditions, that I should be back to
lunch at one without fail. With this view I took nothing with me to eat or drink-nor even to smoke.
