CHAPTER VI. 



FAREWELL TO THE SPEAR. 



A Last Day The Meet Offer of a Mount The ' Caster' Not so 

 Black as he's Painted Exciting Bit of News Efforts to Dis- 

 lodge the Game' Muzzle ' Change our Tactics The Panther 

 Breaks Race for the Spear ' There's Many a Slip ' My Turn 

 Failure Success Danger of Beaters The ' Caster ' Declines 

 A Beater Mauled On Foot in the Bajree ' Muzzle ' Comes 

 to the Rescue Death of the Panther A Plucky Youngster 

 The Colonel and the Cubs Quotations from Major Shakespear 

 Advice. 



' The Rifle knows my hand no more, 

 Adieu to Spur and Spear.' 



I LITTLE thought some decade and a half ago 

 when I heard the above lines quoted, how ap- 

 plicable they would be in my own case. I well 

 remember the day a jolly party at the artillery 

 mess at Kamptee on the eve of my last day's 

 hog-hunting, and one which turned out about the 

 most exciting day's sport I ever experienced. My 



