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in less than ten minutes, by an old campaigning 

 receipt which, for the benefit of future foragers, I give 

 a la Mrs. Harris's : " First catch your goose, cut off 

 the head, pull off the feathers with the skin, cut the 

 meat from off the bones in small square pieces, and 

 chuck them into a frying pan, with butter, pepper, 

 and salt, if you have any, letting them stew until they 

 assume a rich brown colour, when you may begin to 

 eat." Bread or biscuit fried up with the fat is a 

 considerable adjunct. 



My hunger satiated, the gang, according to their 

 usual custom, made a huge fire of dry logs on a 

 piece of open ground a short distance in front of the 

 hut ; and, spreading my carpet to windward, I prepared 

 to enjoy the " fragrant weed," and cogitate upon the 

 programme for the morrow, whilst our tents d'abri 

 (of which each of us carried a part in front of his 

 saddle) were being pitched : it being considered pre- 

 ferable to sleep under canvass to remaining in the hut, 

 on account of vermin ; fleas having been found so large 

 and numerous that Kuchuk declared that he was 

 afraid of molesting or annoying any of the race, for, 

 if they made a combined attack and all pulled one 

 way, he felt sure they would be able to drag him 

 bodily out of the hut. 



There is no time more pleasant in the life of an old 

 forest-ranger than the setting in of the night, after a 

 good day's sport, when the hunters recline round the 



