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bred dogs are excellent ones to find game; 

 and, though they will not stand when 

 they find it, still by following them up 

 closely you may get wonderfully good 

 partridge and quail shooting over them. 

 I ordered also one of the strong Persian 

 greyhounds, which are as fleet as our 

 greyhounds at home, but a much more 

 powerful animal to pull down a wounded 

 deer. With this lot, in addition to the 

 dogs Smith expected, we thought we 

 should have very decent sport, and were 

 not far wrong in our expectations. I 

 asked a friend, in cantonments, if he 

 would accept the loan of the Arab horse 

 till I returned, which I did not see any 

 prospect of doing for at least, some 

 months, as we both intended to apply for 

 the extra six months which we had the 

 option of taking. 



