CHAPTER II. 



The Origin of Paperchasing. 



When the country round Calcutta was found to be 

 by no means of the best for the pursuit of the "Jack,'* 

 the hounds were given up and people turned about to 

 find a substitute. Thus was it that paperchasing began. 

 It is, however, as we have said, certain that where hunting 

 has not been found possible, from one reason or another, 

 some substitute has been usually adopted. Man is an 

 animal, whose instinct is to chase something— the fox, 

 the stag, the hare — or even sometimes a little dear !! Do 

 we not all remember that pious ^neas and his followers, 

 after a most troublesome voyage up the Mediterranean, 

 when they landed on the northern coast of Africa, seasick 

 as they were, first turned their thoughts to hunting? 

 We have heard of what sort of horse it was that Puer 

 Ascanius, the light-weight of the party, bestrode, and we 

 are led to believe that even old Pater Anchises, who had 

 not had a ride since his son carried him out of Troy 

 pick-a-back, attended the meet on wheels (of sorts) 

 possibly, a hand-propelled chariot, the Bathchair of 

 that far-off period ! Adonis again, who was killed out 

 pigsticking, could not be persuaded by even the most 

 beautiful of all the goddesses to stay and dally in the 

 shade, when there was a chance of a chasse offering ! 

 Hippolytus, also killed when driving back from hunting, 

 his chariot horses taking fright at a mad bull sent to 

 worry him by Poseidon — the old reprobate — was deaf 



