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CHAPTER IV. 



TACKLING A TUSKER. 



Roorkee Ten Days' Leave Hurdwar Game of the Doon Valley 

 Ramiah The Rogue Elephant See Tigers News of the 

 Tusker Dawn in the Doon The Sewalik Hills Find the 

 Tusker's Tracks His Depredations A Weary Tramp Ramiah 

 Wants to Give Up Perseverance Rewarded A Long Crawl 

 He Winds Us The Shot Misery We Find Blood Hopes 

 Revived Pursuit Is it Him? Disappointment Elephant Pits 

 The Fate of the Rogue. 



IT was on a warm afternoon in November when a 

 solitary horseman might have been seen wending 

 his way but no, I will not inflict this ' G. P. R. 

 James ' style of beginning on my reader, and only 

 ask him, or her if any fair lady should deign to 

 cast a glance over these pages to imagine me a 

 youthful ensign, mad on sport, cantering along 

 the banks of the Ganges Canal, that runs from 

 Hurdwar past Roorkee (at which station my regi- 

 ment was stationed), full of delight at my first 

 ten days 7 leave in India. This leave I had at last 

 obtained, after several months strict attention to 



