Jungle By- Ways in India 



beast, or to drop to the rifle of a would-be shikari 

 sitting over a salt lick ! 



Sterndale in the old days endeavoured to defend 

 this latter practice by some specious arguments, 

 but it is a pastime which even the Government 

 of India have realized smacks too much of the 

 methods of our Aryan Brother to fall within the 

 term of sport, and have prohibited it. 



I have often thought, too, that it is a pity 

 that a fine stag should end his days at the end of a 

 drive through the forest when, flying mad with 

 terror from a pandemonium behind him, he bites 

 the dust in front of a sportsman carefully en- 

 sconced upon his run. 



Is there very much difference between the 

 methods of such a sportsman and those of a wild 

 dog? 



I have alluded to the wariness of the old stags. 

 I have often watched a stag on his way from the 

 forest to water or to a salt lick or out into the open 

 to graze. 



He will approach the edge of the forest with 

 the greatest circumspection and caution, and then 

 wait for minutes together searching each square 

 inch of country in front to make sure that there 

 are no enemies in it, and snuff the air with equal 

 closeness and care. He may then move forward a 

 few steps and then commence the same perform- 

 ance over again. 



Wonderful is the patience and extreme wariness 



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