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elephant, which latter promptly set to work to try 

 and pull the sportsman out of his machan. Now, 

 there are severe penalties for shooting elephants 

 in the Siwaliks, besides which his rifle was not 

 heavy enough for such game, so not wanting to 

 further enrage the beast in any way, he was busy 

 getting higher up the tree while the tiger was 

 dragging off the kill. 



We discovered next day that our tiger had 

 returned later and made his meal. A further 

 discovery was that the original kill had taken 

 place some way away from the trees, and that 

 the coolies had dragged the carcass some twenty 

 or thirty yards. This, of course, explained the 

 tiger's extreme caution. 



During February an amusing incident at a 

 pig-stick occurred. We were out for the day 

 only, not far from Meerut in a civilized district. 

 A sportsman declared he spotted a pig enter a 

 distant bush, and some of us galloped off and 

 through the bush, when out walked a very 

 indignant-looking old goat ! 



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