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hunted, their run is very similar to that of a roe-deer, 

 and they rarely leave the covert. 



The sambur is larger than the Exmoor red deer, 

 and chocolate-brown in colour. The horns, which 

 carry six points, are much finer in the Indian stags 

 than those of Ceylon. It would, I think, be possible 

 to hunt them in some parts of India, but as a rule 

 it is not done. In fact I never heard of such a thing, 

 but it may be done in the Madras Presidency. 



II. HUNTING WITH GREYHOUNDS IN THE INDIAN PLAINS. 



In writing the heading of this chapter I have 

 purposely avoided the use of the word " coursing," 

 because I consider the word cannot properly be taken 

 to mean the pursuit of the fox. A second reason for 

 my doing so consists in the fact that of coursing proper 

 I know nothing, for I have never seen greyhounds 

 at work in England. This may seem a strange 

 confession for an Englishman devoted to sport to 

 make, but the leash never had any charms for me. 

 Trotting along the boundless plains, with a couple of 

 hounds running by one's side, and ready for any 

 four-footed animal which might appear, is, to my 

 mind, quite a different class of amusement. In 

 English coursing, judging from written descriptions, 

 the judge must be the only man who really gets any 

 fun. Mr. Jorrocks can hardly have ever acted in 

 that capacity, or else his famous stricture on the sport: 

 " Now, of all the slow, starvation, great-coat, comforter, 

 worsted-stockin', dirty-nose sorts of amusement, that 



