Antlers 



the ways of the jungle beasts in their own homes. 

 In one of them excitement runs high, for a panther 

 was reported in the beat, and ' spots ' is ever 

 fondly looked out for, the more so that he is so 

 terribly difficult to mark down. He can lie up 

 under a stone or leaf almost, so wonderfully does 

 his colouring and the peculiar manner he crouches 

 when lying low assimilate to his environment. 

 ' Spots ' broke back this time, several excited 

 beaters saying that they had witnessed the 

 manoeuvre whether true or no, it is impossible 

 to say, since the men imagine all sorts of things 

 when they are told that there is a tiger or leopard 

 in the beat. 



Detailing our experiences, we make for the 

 luncheon rendezvous, where we find our lunch- 

 basket carrier, who has also brought out a lady or 

 two from the camp without any extra incon- 

 venience, standing beneath a shady pipal tree, 

 keeping off the flies by flicking himself with a 

 branch torn from the tree ; a branch the weight 

 of which any one of us would have been sorry to 

 have had to lift even. He and his mahout are the 

 picture of somnolent ease both absolutely typical 

 of the East ! 



We throw ourselves down, and the glint and 

 gleam of foam-topped glasses calls forth sighs of 

 general content with life under these conditions ! 



