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" One day shikar : a hundred days' toil " (or 

 more accurately " unpaid labour "). Indeed I 

 know of no form of sport in which the odds 

 against the rifle are heavier. After all, as some one 

 has said, "the game is to pursue the fox, not to 

 kill him." What sort of sportsman would he be 

 whose ideal "happy hunting-grounds" afforded 

 a minimum of toil with a maximum of killing ? 

 What true angler really desires a "multitude of 

 fishes " ? Ahu-gardani has, moreover, the merits 

 of a foursome, the co-ordination of endeavour by 

 two. The responsibility is the senior partner's till 

 he goes down ; after that it is for his " Ibrahim " 

 to exhibit the virtues of observation and patience, 

 for himself to keep his eyes " skinned," and to 

 put the finale on their mutual toil. 



