220 GUN, RIFLE, AND HOUND. 



being accepted, I sent a man to Allahabad to fetch 

 them. 



Meanwhile I had been considering the question of 

 how greyhounds ought really to be managed during 

 the Indian summer. I had already discovered that it 

 was no good expecting dogs to be equal to the efforts 

 that might reasonably be expected from them in 

 England ; in fact, that it was necessary to convey 

 them to and from the ground. Even then they 

 soon tired. So I set to work to design a coursing 

 van, of which, as I afterwards used a similar one for 

 foxhounds, I subjoin a description. 



I first got a pair of wheels, which were strong 

 enough to stand the bumping over rocks and nullahs. 

 On these I got a native carpenter to put a flat flooring 

 and a pair of shafts. At each corner of the floor an 

 upright, some eighteen inches high, was erected, and 

 these were connected, except behind, by stout rails. 

 These rails were pierced every few inches, and through 

 each hole an iron pin was driven which also entered 

 the flooring. Over this sort of cot on wheels rose an 

 arched roof of a peculiar native thatch, covered with 

 white cloth. A tail-board fitted in behind, and white 

 curtains, which could be lowered at the front, back, 

 and sides, to exclude the sun, were provided. It could 

 easily be drawn by a pony or by one of the little native 

 bullocks, which I preferred for the purpose. 



It carried four greyhounds comfortably ; in fact, 

 they sometimes slept in it at night. In addition it 

 was always supplied with water and drinking troughs. 

 Though not rapid in its movements, it followed along 



