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Avas not in the best of humours ; but anythmg 

 is better than hurtins; a hound. 



Jackals seemed to abound, but to shoot 

 these Httle rascals as they twist and turn in 

 thick covert is not easy work with an ' Ex- 

 press,' and not one was killed in the three days 

 we were out : and thouo-h the hounds were in 

 full cry at their heels almost all day and every 

 day, they never managed to ' chop ' one. 



Towards evening the sport rather im- 

 proved, although all discipline had long since 

 fled. In the early part of the day, men had 

 been posted all round the country to be 

 beaten, and only the huntsman and whips 

 followed the dogs, which were put in at the 

 furthest point down wind. But as the heat 

 decreased and the sportsmen's patience waned, 

 every man did as seemed best to him. 



The hounds were divided. Three or foin- 

 were pegging away after jackals in the lower 

 country towards the sea, another lot had got 



