Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Old Playmates. [ARTICLE]

Old Playmates.

The author of “Modern Hunting," In La Nouvelle Revue, tells a pleasing story of one of the oldest and most celebrated sportsmen of France, the Prince de Joinvil-le. The Prince is perhaps the “senior member” of hunting society in his country. He was hunting in the Chantilly forest, as the guest of the Due d’Aumale. His party met another party which was following a deer id the same forest, and some disorder resulted. The Prince lost track of the animal that he was following, but he took the disappointment philosophically, and set out to find the deer again. On the way he was stopped by an old white-haired peasant, who told him that the deer he was following had passed by there recently. The son of Louis Philippe asked some simple question, but as the old peasant replied he looked at him keenly, seeming to pay more attention to him than to his words. Suddenly be stopped him. “Wait! it seems to me that I know you, friend!” he exclaimed. “Yes sir,” replied .the peasant, in his old cracked voice, which shook a little with emotion. “Oh, yes, we have often eaten cakes at ‘Auntie Adelaide’s.’ ” It was sixty years since they had been children together, but the varied experiences of that time had not made the Prince forget his old playmate and servitor, and he delayed his quest for the lost deer to renew the acquaintance.