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I had added heads of all the great trophies of Africa and Asia as

well A splendid pair of elephant tusks stood in a corner A fine head

of the sheep of Tibet, ovus poli--and I prize none of my trophies

er--looked

full front at us from above the fireplace My rod racks, and those

which supported uns and rifles, were here and there about the

rooone

soberly about the business of sport; and in these days, that can be

practised most successfully by a man with much leisure and unstinted

means

My books lay about everywhere, also, books which perhaps would not

have appealed to all My copies of the Vedas, many works on the

Buddhist faith, and translations from Confucius, lay side by side

with that Bible which we Christians have alot Here, too,

stood my desk with its cases of preservedmosquitoes as an amusement I had collected all the

mosquito literature of the world, and reat microscope I had passed many happy hours

here in the oblivion of rown almost a necessity if I were to escape the worst of all

habits, that of introspection and self-pity