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CHAPTER XIV. 



ABOUT SOME DEER. 



The Poetry of Sport Long Shots to be Avoided Varieties of Deer 

 Sambur Beating Stalking Amongst the Sewalik Hills 

 The Twelve-tined Deer Spotted Deer Their Habits An 

 Imaginary Stalk A Wounded Stag shows Fight Good Bag 

 out of a Herd Riding down Spotted Deer Para, or Hog-deer 

 Shoot One in a Snipe Jheel The Muntjak Description 

 Their curious Bark 'Paloo' A Shot in the Hills Jungle 

 Fare The Four-horned Antelope Description. 



IF, as ' Hawk eye ' (that good sportsman and 

 charming writer who has contributed such delight- 

 ful articles to the South of India Observer) remarks, 

 beating for deer on the hills and dense forests of 

 India may be termed the prose of sport, surely he 

 is right in dubbing stalking the poetry of sport ? 



There are numerous Indian field-sports more 

 exciting than stalking the ' bonnie dun deer,' but 

 few that bring back more delightful recollections 

 of hours passed in the solitary grandeur of the 

 hills and jungles but seldom trod by the foot of 



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