Nobody could have a bettah birthday present than this trip has been.

The only thing about it that has made me unhappy for a minute is that I must leave Hero and nevah see him again.

He follows me just as well now as he does his mastah." The Major came back from his long climb up the mountain, very tired.

"It is more than I should have undertaken the first day," he said, "but back here in the scenes of my boyhood I find it hard to realise that I am an old, old man.

I'll be rested in the morning, however, ready for whatever comes." But in the morning he was still much exhausted, and came down-stairs leaning heavily on his cane.