212 GUN, RIFLE, AND HOUND. 



The distinctive sport is the chasses, or deer drives, 

 but it will be hard lines if I don't manage to show 

 you one of those too before you go." 



I must say I thought R -'s invention was 

 worthy of imitation, and if our soldiers and sailors 

 in tropical stations who find time hang heavy on their 

 hands were only to try their hands at it, the number 

 of these sea pests might be substantially reduced. 

 Yet even sharks have their uses, I suppose, as the 

 father of one of my friends once found out. Wishing 

 to bathe in a Ceylon river, he asked a native to show 

 him a place where there were no alligators. The 

 native took him to a pool close to the estuary. 

 After his dip, and when he was drying himself, the 

 European asked his guide why there were never any 

 alligators in that pool. 



"Because, sar," replied the Cingalese, "plenty 

 'fraid of sharks." 



