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CHAPTER XIII. 



TIGER-SHOOTING (CONCLUDED). 



Unlucky Days Ningnur I nearly make a Fatal Mistake Folly of 



Changing One's Mind Useless Pursuit Blank Day * If * 



Another Try for Bears Galop after a Boar Lose Him 

 Sold by a Panther Tigers' and Panthers' Mode of Devouring 

 their Prey Start for the other Kill Mistakes The Tiger 

 Roused My Folly Bad Luck with a Boar A Chapter of 

 Accidents. 



' All hits are history, 

 All misses are mystery.' 



How true is the above quotation, for successful 

 days in sport are certainly charming, both at the 

 time, and when one looks back on them in after 

 years ; but days when everything seems to have 

 gone wrong are certainly the reverse. Do we 

 not all know the day when we were ' out of it ' 

 in a good gallop with hounds, owing perhaps to 

 taking a wrong turn, or perhaps our heart failed 

 us when we ought to have negotiated that awk- 

 ward place in the corner, and we thought we 



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