BULLET AND SHOT 



had simply " skiffed " along outside the ribs, not 

 cutting the skin all along the line, but missing the 

 portions of it overlying the intercostal spaces, and 

 had then entered the fore-leg and thus lamed him. 



THE BULL AND THE WATERPROOF 



The Bandipur jungle differs from most of the 

 forests of the Mysore district in being more hilly, 

 and in parts far more open than are the others. 



One afternoon, after a long tramp during which 

 not a bison had been seen, I had reached a very open 

 portion where grassy hill-slopes are the rule, and 

 cover the exception. It had been a luckless, weary 

 day, and rain had rendered walking uncomfortable, 

 and as I wandered over this open expanse in the 

 hope of seeing a bear out feeding, and after slope 

 after slope, and hillside after hillside, had been 

 searched in vain, I thought that I should have to 

 record a blank day. 



It was still raining hard, and I had on a white 

 mackintosh coat, and was roaming dispiritedly over 

 some open grass with a patch of cover on our right, 

 when, instantaneously, one of my men stopped and 

 pointed in that direction. 



Thinking that he had seen a sambur or a bear, I 

 took my '500 express, but he motioned me to 

 change it for the 8-bore. I had as yet seen nothing, 

 but at last I managed to make out, between two 

 trees, the head and chest of a bull bison standing 

 staring at j^me. He had evidently never seen a 

 white mackintosh before, and his curiosity so far 



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