102 IBEX SHOOTING 



I were you and go back to Srinagar." " All 

 right," said I. "You can throw further 

 than I, see if you can throw it as far as 

 that ledge, and then go back to Srinagar 

 yourself and say you've lost your temper. 

 Your friends will say you are a great 

 shikari." And with that I swung off in a 

 rage, and lay down in the shade of a rock 

 to smoke and recover my temper, while 

 Lassoo and party went off on a similar 

 errand in the opposite direction. One pipe 

 had no effect to-day, and no more had the 

 second. So I had breakfast and two or 

 three more pipes ; then a snooze of a couple 

 of hours ; but still I was sulky and sick at 

 heart, the inevitable result of a real burst 

 of temper and of the blow to my pride, for 

 I really fancied myself a good deal as a 

 rifle shot, and there was no excuse I could 

 think of for missing that time. 



I lived the whole thing through over and 

 over again. There they were coming up 

 the hill, playing and gambolling ; the first, 

 second and third passed me ; then the fourth 



