Jungle By- Ways in India 



But I have little doubt that he has long ago taken 

 their measure, and a little preening of his best 

 feathers before them and a little soft sawder will 

 bring them into line all right ! 



These beautiful little antelope are by no means 

 naturally wary. In fact, they soon become very 

 tame if left alone and undisturbed by the rifle. 

 When come across in areas where there is a fair 

 amount of scrub jungle into which they can 

 retire easily, and when not shot at incessantly in 

 an open country, it is not difficult to get near 

 them to study their wonderful grace and agility and 

 their happy little ways a pursuit which to my mind 

 is far more fascinating than shooting them down. 



If, however, much shot at in the open culti- 

 vated tracts which form their chief abode, they 

 become very wild, and stalking them becomes a 

 difficult matter, if not a high art. 



Of course, recourse can always be had to a 

 pair of bullocks, or a country-cart drawn by 

 bullocks. The antelope are so used to seeing the 

 villagers engaged in the fields with their plough 

 oxen, or driving them across the open maidan to 

 the village back from work, to seeing the village 

 cattle going out from the village in the morning 

 and returning at night, and to the appearance of 

 bullock-carts going up and down the main and 

 feeder roads, that they take no notice of them. 



It is therefore easy to get near a herd by 

 keeping to the lee-side of a pair of bullocks 



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