Ways and Means 



Wouldn't you put yourself out of the way to hear 

 all about old scenes ? Tattersall's ! Church parade 

 in the Park ! The theatres ! And the Savoy to 

 top up with ! 



Well, next morning you tumble out at the first 

 streak of dawn, as this is a lower altitude than 

 you have yet struck since Mombasa, and it is 

 very apt to get unpleasantly hot and steamy in 

 this sort of saucer in the hills. All you have 

 brought with you is one gun-bearer and one body 

 servant — the latter tidies up your room and pro- 

 ceeds to have a good time in the bazaar (a tiny 

 one, but a bazaar all the same from his point of 

 view), and the former, having been warned before- 

 hand, has collected two or three tame Nandi as 

 guides, who do not mind shouldering a leg or 

 forequarter — the Nandi won't all do it — and away 

 you go. Along the railway towards the lake, 

 over a wooden bridge, stepping from sleeper to 

 sleeper, and not looking down, as it is all open- 

 work and there is nothing between you and the 

 abyss below, till, reaching terra firma again, you 

 strike off to the right or north. I spent a Christ- 

 mas there, during a row with the Nandi, and on 

 the 25th December shot my first roan : nothing 

 out-of-the-way large — still it was a most acceptable 

 Christmas present. 



That was after the short or autumn rains. The 

 grass was long, and one got drenched with dew 

 half-way up one's thigh on the way up to the 



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