WOOD

(1857-1941, Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts) thanking him and saying that he will live as long as I can conveniently. Perhaps I should be wiser if I stopped in doors and tried to dictate answers to some hundreds of letters I have got, than I am in going out to look for a fox in a snow storm but still as yet I have only got ninty-nine [sic] days booked and as I am unlike the American, who advised his friend, who boasted of having shot nine hundred and ninty-nine rabbits, to make it a thousand. He replied: 'Sir, do you think I would imperil my immortal soul for one rabbit.' So I am going to make up my hundred days..., 1 side 8vo., Millhurst, Harlow, 25th March