Biography: Jock of the Bushveld (Annotated)

Preface.

"Sonny, you kin reckon it dead sure, thar's something wrong 'bout a thing that don't explain itself."

That was Old Rocky's advice, given three-and-twenty years ago—not forgotten yet, but, in this instance, respectfully ignored.

It happened some years ago, and this was the way of it: the Fox of Ballybotherem having served three generations—in his native Tipperary, in Kaffraria, and in the Transvaal—seemed entitled to a rest; and when, in the half-hour before 'lights out,' which is the ...