34 SHECARRIE'S METHOD OF CATCHING HARES. 



for myself or others to shoot at while running : it 

 was always difficult to get them to move ; some- 

 times I have absolutely been obliged to toss them 

 out with the muzzle of my gun. 



A gentleman with myself hired two Shecar- 

 ries during the hot weather, at three rupees a 

 month each, to kill game, and they supplied our 

 tables everyday with some kind or other. I often 

 accompanied them, and had an opportunity of 

 seeing all their methods of catching it. I 

 usually took my gun with me ; my servants 

 carrying a chair and my hookah, and I sat down 

 near the nets or nooses, and fired at all that flew 

 over, or passed on the sides ; it astonished me to 

 see how much game three or four of them would 

 drive out of the covers more, I am certain, than 

 twenty common people would have done, not being 

 professed Shecarries. 



Some danger attended these excursions ; it not 

 unfrequently happening that Shecarries were taken 

 away by tigers; and on these occasions, their 

 apathy, from a thorough belief in predestination, 

 was seldom if ever surpassed ; although a father, 

 mother, or brother, should be carried away by a 



