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always acted as whipper-in and myself were 

 on foot in the garden, and he viewed the jackal 

 out. We had to lift the pack out one by 

 one over the broken wall, and then the native 

 whipper-in and the field brought us our horses. 

 Once outside, the hounds ran as fast as ever ; 

 this was just about the time in the morning 

 when the sun has warmed the dew and not 

 yet dried the ground and the scent is at its 

 very best. Hounds raced away again and 

 about half an hour or so from the find I found 

 myself back in the covert from which I had 

 started, but the stout jackal was not done yet. 

 For fully another hour we hunted him, though 

 never at the same pace as at first, until at last 

 hounds ran into him in the most orthodox 

 fashion in a ditch. 



I don't know who it was who first put for- 

 ward the idea that foxhounds will not break 

 up a jackal, but of the packs I have known 

 not one has ever failed in keenness in that 

 respect. I used to carry a hunting-knife and 

 cut the skin, for it is so tough hounds cannot 

 make much impression ; some few hounds will 

 not touch it, but then neither will many hounds 

 break up a fox. 



Now let us turn to the best way to hunt 

 hounds in India. In the first place it is desir- 

 able to make them as handy as possible, for it 



