The point was that I woefully was wrong in mine.

How true it is that we who would pluck the mote from behind a fellow being's waistcoat so rarely take note of the beam which we have swallowed crosswise! Even so, a great light was beginning to percolate to my innermost consciousness.

A grave doubt pestered me through our days of camping there in the autumnal wilderness.

When we had emerged from the woods and had reached Montreal on the homeward trip I enticed my friend upon a penny-in-the-slot weighing machine in the Montreal station and I observed what he weighed; and then when he stepped aside I unostentatiously weighed myself, and in the box score credited myself with a profound shock; also with an error, which should have been entered up a long time before that.
Approximately, we were of the same height and in bone structure not greatly unlike.

I had figured that daily tramping after game should have taken a few folds of superfluous flesh off my frame, and so, no doubt, it had done.