BULLET AND SHOT 



other matter, the inside of the skin, and the sole, 

 right into the interior of the toe-nails, must be well 

 coated with arsenical soap (which should be obtained 

 in India, not in England), after which the foot may 

 be filled with dry sand well rammed in ; and after 

 the whole of the outside of the skin has been 

 painted over with arsenical soap, it may be daily 

 put in the sun to dry, the sand being often rammed 

 in to keep the skin extended. When partly dry, the 

 sand may be removed, another inside coating of 

 arsenical soap given, and the skin folded down as 

 much as possible to reduce bulk, and again put in 

 the sun till quite dry and hard. 



Great care must be taken in using arsenical soap. 

 The sportsman should on no account allow a 

 servant either to apply it, or to handle anything 

 which has been coated with it. He must person- 

 ally apply this poison, and personally handle the 

 trophies to which he may apply it, carefully 

 cleansing his hands after he has touched any 

 such. He must, moreover, be very careful, should 

 he have a cut on one of his fingers, that not a 

 particle of the preservative touches that spot. 

 Arsenical soap should be kept locked up in a box 

 of which the sportsman himself keeps the key. 

 Elephants' fore-feet make handsome footstools, 

 and they can also be fitted with internal divisions 

 and lids, and made into liqueur cases, etc. 



The hill ranges of the native state of Travancore 

 abound in elephants which are very destructive, 

 and formerly, if leave to shoot one or two tuskers 

 was applied for, it was granted. Recently, however, 



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