PLEASURES OF A PIN-FIRE RIFLE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 THE BEAE (Ursus labiatus). 



Indian varieties of Burmese bear Sloth bears Food of 

 Difficulty in aiming at correctly Methods of shooting the 

 Beat at Poppinapett Wounded bear charges Nearly 

 shot by a friend Shoot first bear Mad jackal See a 

 tiger Bokur Bears numerous at Scouting for Lon- 

 gevity of The Tairbund Man-killers Baliyah nearly 

 caught Absurd scene Bears marked down Am nearly 

 scragged Finale Triumphal procession of villagers. 



THREE varieties of bear are found in India, viz., the black 

 and the brown bears of the Himalayas and Cashmere, and 

 the black bear of the plains, inappropriately termed the 



