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lady gave him made him retire, to a respectable distance 

 and look as rather disgusted at the treatment he had 

 received. 



It was now getting rather late in the day, and seeing 

 no immediate prospect of a run we stopped the beat and 

 retired to a big mango garden or tope, where we had 

 lunch while the beaters, syces, and others did justice to 

 their jol-pan. Jol-pan literally translated means water 

 and betel leaf ; but the real meaning of it is a slight 

 meal or refreshment, and consists generally of parched 

 rice, gram or any other kind of grain with the addition 

 of a little treacle. It does not cost much to give your 

 beaters and followers a feed of jol-pan : five rupees worth 

 is generally enough for over a hundred hungry stomachs. 

 While discussing lunch Lindsay very generously offered 

 to lend us mounts. Morey jumped at the offer of the 

 country-bred mare, Lady-bird, as he knew she was a 

 real good 'un to go ; but Ferguson, who had accepted 

 the offer of a mount also, must have been rather sur- 

 prised when he found that no sooner he was mounted 

 his horse wanted to sit down with him, and he just 

 managed to jump off before the general collapse came. 

 This was evidently one of Lindsay's walers that was 

 rather weak behind I 



Having refreshed ourselves we moved on to the other 

 and bigger patiale, the one next to the factory. Our 

 beaters were now fast vanishing so we hurried the 

 beat. At first only a few widows and orphans showed 

 themselves, and we were thinking our forces were not 



