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news and so the saheb walking in the jungle met me and ordered 

 that you go collect villagers for the purpose of beating jungle, and 

 then by reason of my astuteness had I gone aside to see that place 

 of gdra and perform plans but as I approached near to it that old 

 Mussalmdn who is a very cunning man he had seen me so I had 

 gone forward to the villages and collected some beaters and when 

 at the time of noon the saheb began to arrange for beating 

 jungles he called me and said that Jhoot Singh dost thou know 

 this jungle and in which direction the tigers are accustomed to run 

 and proceed away in this place ? So I agreed and went to make 

 arrangements and with us came the sepoys except that cunning 

 Mussalman he remained near to the saheb and when I had 

 escaped out of the sight of those sepoys I went alone and taking 

 with (me) some loin-cloth and white cloth of turban by arranging 

 that cloth on bushes so that animal (tiger) did not run straight 

 forward at the time of making the beat but ascended a little hill 

 and went away to one side and the saheb called me and asked me 

 this reason with great force and said " Dydm ! " afterwards were 

 there more two beats but there was no further trace of that 



animal. Further the Kshatriya and one Jdt had afterwards 



found the tracks that were going towards a far jungle and so there 

 was an order to take camp near there and the saheb shot some 



deer and was coming there also. Further in this other 



jungle there remains never any tiger but it became known to me 

 that the very animal has gone in the direction of the jungle 



of B and that the Mussalmdn also had gone away not saying 



any word and so I said to the saheb I will go to another good 

 jungle also for the procuring of news and then I walked by night 



but first did I remain at the village of S to execute some 



private works so when in the morning time I had arrived at 



B there was present that Mussalman sepoy and he spoke 



friendly words and was saying gladly see Jhoot Singh my brother 

 how I am clever in obtaining of news for there is fresh news of 



two tigers in the bandi of T and wilt thou come this day after 



eating food and give help and I said first I will sleep and then will 



I eat and after that will I come but soon escaping from his 



view by cleverness at once I went to that bandi of T which is 



distant three kos and in that village I greatly beat Raoji patel and 



