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to seize the unaccustomed quarry in spite of my 

 encouragement. Finally, the fox made for a rocky 

 hillock covered with cactus bushes, unsighted them, 

 and got to ground. This was provoking, and I did 

 not find again. 



Two days afterwards, having ascertained that 

 jackals frequented a rocky hill not very far from 

 my house, I went out to see if I could try to induce 

 them to tackle this quarry. I took a couple of coolies 

 with me, and, posting myself with the dogs on one 

 side of the hill, sent them to beat it from the other. 

 Complete success crowned this manoeuvre, for two 

 jackals broke close to me. I cheered on the dogs, who 

 speedily raced up to a "jack" but refused to close 

 with him. The brute showed fight, snarling and 

 snapping at the greyhounds, and waited till I was 

 close to him, when he made off. This time the dogs 

 would not even follow. Completely disheartened, I 

 returned home, and the same result occurred the 

 next day and each time I went out. I began to 

 think my coursing would never come to any good, 

 when, by good luck, I heard of two greyhounds, 

 crossed with the native Kampore breed, which were 

 warranted to tackle anything. I wrote to say I 

 would buy them, and my offer being accepted, I 

 sent a man to Allahabad to fetch them. 



Meanwhile I had been considering the question 

 of how greyhounds ought really to be managed 

 during the Indian summer. I had already discovered 

 that it was no good expecting dogs to be equal to 

 the efforts that might reasonably be expected from 

 them in England ; in fact, that it was necessary to 

 convey them to and from the ground. Even then 

 they soon tired. So I set to work to design a 



