BULLET AND SHOT 



It is further essential that unless one at least of 

 the party be a Government official belonging to the 

 district to be worked, the sportsmen should invoke 

 the assistance of the authorities by writing a polite 

 note to the Collector (or calling upon him, should 

 that be practicable), and asking him to kindly issue 

 orders to his subordinates for their assistance. (In 

 Mysore, and in non-regulation provinces in India, 

 the head of each district is called, not " Collector," 

 but " Deputy-commissioner.") 



Without the assistance of the authorities, it is in 

 many places well-nigh impossible to induce villagers 

 to turn out to beat, and in fact in too many localities, 

 owing, in the first place, to the extreme general 

 leniency of Government towards the natives, and 

 in the second, to a too often rabid and scurrilous 

 native press (recently however somewhat brought 

 under the curb), the natives appear to take the 

 keenest delight in thwarting and obstructing an 

 Englishman in every possible respect. The party 

 must, therefore, in the first instance, and in ample 

 time, invoke the assistance of the authorities, and 

 should their request for the same be met with even 

 a churlish and half-hearted acquiescence, they had 

 better decide to leave that locality alone and to try 

 another. In many districts it is necessary to obtain 

 a licence from the Collector to shoot in forest re- 

 serves, and, during the hot and dry weather, this is 

 often refused in the interests of forest fire-protection 

 verb. sap. sat. 



Supposing, however, that all has gone well, and 

 that the Collector, or Deputy-commissioner, as the 



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