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though I only rode for a mile or two at a walk. 

 When the doctor came in I told him. 



" Yes, I saw the mem-sahib out of the window, and 

 was very glad she did it on her own responsibility, 

 as I dare not give permission." 



Soon after this in came Abdulla : a panther had 

 killed a calf about ten miles away, and he had brought 

 a cart ready to fetch me. The road was bad and we 

 went slowly. I sat up tih 1 dark close to a small 

 pool. Nothing came excepting some peafowl, and 

 three chital stags, for a drink. I got home and found 

 the doctor very kindly waiting up to bandage my 

 leg he said there was improvement, and the exercise 

 had done me good and I dined at i a.m. 



I had not seen a white person for months, and two 

 sahibs on their way to shoot called on me one day 

 and asked me to dine. This I much wished to do, 

 but I had just undergone the kneading process, 

 which always left me in much pain for several hours, 

 so I could not go. 



News came of a tiger kill rather late one day, and 

 several miles away; there was no time for a beat, 

 so Abdulla tied up the hammock in a nice spreading 

 tree over the kill. It was not exactly the place I 

 should have chosen myself to sit up in. The tree 

 was growing at the bottom of a nullah that had 

 steep high banks : the nullah side was excellent, 

 and all that could be desired, but on the other side 

 the bank was just level with the machan and within 

 a yard of it, so that all that one had to do to get in 

 was to give one step off the bank and there you were. 

 A narrow path ran along the top, the sort of nice 



