Buck and Boar round Meerut 



alternately chasing the latter playfully, and 

 driving each other away. One grand-looking 

 buck monopolized most of the ladies, and 

 walked among them in a lordly way, none of 

 the other bucks venturing near him. To give 

 the younger fellows a chance, I put a bullet 

 into him at the first opportunity, and no riding 

 was necessary. 



E had the next shot, hitting a nice buck 



in a small herd. He went away and we both 

 started riding. After a short burst he was joined 

 by three more bucks, and all four rounded a sugar- 

 cane plantation not thirty yards ahead of me. 

 Directly I was round, there they were, still in a 

 bunch; but after a long chase none of them 

 seemed coming back at all, while one I saw was 

 a doe, whereas they had, I was almost certain, 

 been all bucks. We pulled off quite puzzled, and 

 rode back to the sugar-cane, where alone I had 

 had my eyes off them for a moment. Here we 

 found tracks of a buck leading in, so we rode 

 through, and sure enough put up the wounded 

 fellow, who gave another run and eventually 

 charged a cow, which upset him, and we speared. 

 He must have slipped into the sugar-cane just 

 ahead of me and turned out the doe. 



After a rest and drinks, we started again. I 

 was now "in the box," and presently saw a buck 

 a long way off. This lot proved to be another 



