REMINISCENCES 



overcame his fears that he stood gazing at it while 

 the man had time to point him out to me, while 

 I could take my express from one of the men, and 

 then change it for the 8-bore. and until I was able to 



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make him out and fire at him. One bullet in the 

 chest from the 8-bore laid him low, and another 

 from the "500 express brained him. 



A FORTUNATE HEAD-SHOT 



Although, as a rule, a head-shot at any animal, 

 except an elephant, is to be strictly avoided, it now 

 and then happens in bison shooting that the sports- 

 man must either take it, or lose his chance altogether. 

 In such a case, the head-shot should be tried, the 

 sportsman bearing in mind that what he has to aim 

 at is an imaginary line drawn between the eyes, 

 unless, indeed, the bison be standing with his nose 

 elevated, in which case he must fire at the top of 

 the cartilage of the latter. 



It was once my luck to bag a bull with a head 

 measuring 37^ inches across the sweep, which, al- 

 though it was not dropped dead upon the spot, 

 would not have been bagged at all had the head- 

 shot not been attempted. 



Two miles from Lakwallie (in the Kadur district 

 of Mysore) is a large area of teak plantations of 

 different ages, lying sometimes on one side, and 

 otherwise upon both sides, of the Government road, 

 for a distance of about two miles from its commence- 

 ment to its end. 



The most distant portion is the youngest, and as 



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