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on the animal, whose eyes are fixed on them, 

 and in fact it becomes so fascinated as to allow 

 itself to be taken up deliberately by the ears, 

 when it commences a disagreeable melancholy 

 cry. 



I have often gone close to them when fright- 

 ened as above described, and turned them out, 

 for myself or others to shoot at while running : 

 it was always difficult to get them to move; 

 sometimes I have absolutely been obliged to 

 toss them out with the muzzle of my gun. 



A Gentleman with myself hired two Shccar- 

 ries during the hot weather at three rupees a 

 month each, to kill game, and they supplied 

 our tables every day with some kind or other. 

 1 often accompanied them and had an op- 

 portunity of seeing all their methods of catch- 

 ing it. I usually took my gun with me; my 

 servants carrying a chair and my hookah, and 

 I sat down near the nets or nooses and fired at 

 all that flew over, or passed on the sides ; it 

 astonished me to see how much game three or 

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