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of the same sort as his last employer. I wished him good 

 luck as he went on his way rejoicing. 



Several years after, I chanced to meet him again in 

 Srinuggur, looking a mightier swell than ever. He was 

 then in service as a shikaree, and begged me not to divulge 

 his antecedents in that line. His gratitude was freely ex- 

 pressed when I told the good fellow there was little chance 

 of my so doing, and all the less since, for aught I knew, he 

 might now have become quite a proficient in the art of 

 venery. 



