Ever read Jeffreys, and the sketches by the 'Son of the Marshes' ?" "They're splendid." Mr.Hume nodded and filled a pipe, having a footlong stem, made out of the wing-bone of an albatross.
"I want to describe the personal habits of animals in their surroundings.

I said 'personal' habits.

Do you take me ?" "No, sir." "You think I should use another word, and say, perhaps, 'distinctive' habits.

I say personal.

Now, you take a lion--a bush lion or a veld lion, a yellow lion or a black lion, young or old.
That lion, whichever one you take, is a lion by himself.