Jungle By-Ways in India 



work can give one, it becomes a tedious method 

 of sport. 



How oft does it end in a mere weariness of the 

 flesh ! To cite one of numerous occasions. 



During a jungle-fowl beat one day we got 

 khubbar of a panther which was committing con- 

 siderable depredations amongst the goats and 

 dogs of a certain village. The doctor and self 

 promised to go out and sit up for him during the 

 following week, when there would be a moon. 

 The village was some 8 miles out, at the top of a 

 pass in the Siwaliks. We took a tea-basket, 

 drove out, had tea, tossed for the two machans, 

 situated about a mile apart, and took up our 

 places. My machan was a couple of hundred yards 

 from the village, perched in a small tree in the 

 stony river-bed. 



My goat, provided with a large supply of 

 food by his late and future owner, should he be 

 left unnoticed by the leopard, sat down soon after 

 I took possession of my machan and began 

 to feed in a leisurely, contented sort of fashion. 

 I stood it for an hour or so, and then commenced 

 to lose my temper. I had paid for this goat to 

 bleat lustily, while he was quietly enjoying 

 himself. The moon was only just rising, and so 

 I dared not make a noise, as the leopard might 

 be anywhere close for all I knew. I spent the 

 next hour in endeavouring to the best of my ability 

 to make thaf goat yell, and all without success. 



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