THE BHAGEE. 



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to this day. With his usual erratic disposition, he soon 

 gave up tea-planting, and wandered away elsewhere in 

 search of adventure and wild sport. The last time I met 

 the " Bhagee," by which sobriquet he was well known, he 

 was with an expedition against the hill tribes on the north- 

 west frontier, where, as an amateur, he had been " shooting 

 plumb centre," as he termed it, at the enemy with his six- 

 shooter. The injuries to the poor woman were fortunately 

 more ugly than dangerous. 



