Jungle By -Ways in India 



us, giving a fine galloping shot to the third rifle, 

 who bowls him over. 



A fine heavy beast, but the horns are but thirty- 

 four, for the old big heads nowadays do not appear 

 to frequent the maidan forest, but get away into the 

 broken hilly country, where they must be followed 

 and stalked down on foot and a rare good sport 

 this stalking is, as we shall see later, for one who is 

 sound in wind and limb. 



Plunges madly through the forest. 



The breaking of the sambhar brings the beat to an 

 end, for, it being early in the day, we are not firing 

 at birds, and the pea -fowl, jungle -fowl and 

 partridges which come out at the end of the beat 

 are allowed to go scathless. They form pretty 

 shooting towards the end of the day, especially if 

 numerous, and the gun only takes the more diffi- 

 cult birds. And an old cock jungle-fowl, coming 

 over the guns with a breeze behind him, takes 

 some shooting, as most of us know ! 



A couple more beats take place before lunch, 

 with varied fortune, but much of interest to the 

 natural history lover and he who cares to watch 



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