THE SPORT OF RAJAHS 

 happy one, its sun is setting ; ere the 

 next century has well begun, ad- 

 vancing civilisation and improved 

 breechloaders will have cleared off 

 the elephant, rhino, lion, and buck 

 that have made Africa so happy a 

 hunting-ground these past sixty years. 

 Yet India still maintains her head 

 of game, and bids fair to do so for 

 many years to come. From the 

 North, with its Oves ammon and 

 poli, bears and ibex, to the South, 

 with its tiger, buffalo, sambur, and 

 boar, the sportsman finds game 

 worthy of his steel, in addition to 

 abundance of the lesser kind of 

 buck and bird, and fish and fowl. 

 But, as an old doggerel has it, 



The sport that beats them o'er and o'er 

 Is that wherein we hunt the boar. 

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