SMALL GAME HUNTING WITH DOGS 



found almost at once, and bagged the deer after a fine 

 run. Shortly after a hare was put up which H. bagged, 

 and near the camp we turned out three hares together, 

 of which I accounted for two a right and left. 



On the second morning we put up some pig. H. 

 gave a nice boar a dose of S.S.G. as he dashed past 

 him. We heard the shot hit but he ran on quite 100 

 yards before collapsing into a drain. Another pig was 

 put up and I missed a running shot with the Savage 

 rifle at about 140 yards. In an adjoining patch I shot 

 a hare and the dogs found a deer, which gave a very 

 long run but escaped. In trying to get on to the line 

 another deer was found. I missed him with Paradox 

 ball. Climbing up the face of a cliff along various ledges 

 this deer considered himself safe at the top of it, and he 

 stood there for some time, when a shot from my Savage 

 rifle dropped him. That evening we tried some scrub 

 near a temple. A jungle cock was missed, and I got 

 shots, in quick succession, at a hare and a deer both 

 bagged. Yet another hare was secured on the way home. 



The third morning we had a long run after a most 

 unobliging pig, who would persist in breaking back, and 

 we were on the point of returning to camp when the 

 dogs found a deer which after a time ran below H., who 

 got him ; a nice buck. We got nothing in the evening, 

 but had two fine runs after deer, at both of which I had 

 long rifle shots. I was not present during the next two 

 days, but H. and another gun bagged a pig (after an 

 exciting hunt), a hare, and a jungle cock. One of the 

 best terriers was bitten by a cobra on the ear, and died 

 before he reached camp, only half a mile distant. 



Our last morning's hunt was exactly opposite camp. 

 The dogs found at once, running down a steep face. 



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