Jungle By-Ways in India 



and resembles to a marked degree his desert 

 surroundings. In fact, I found that at 40 yards 

 he had already become to some degree indistinct. 

 After I, or we, had proceeded some quarter of a 

 mile in this manner, I grew rather tired of the 

 bird's idiotic manoeuvring, and the next time he 

 put his head in a bush I started running. He 

 spotted this alteration in my tactics, withdrew 

 his head in a hurry and running a few strides 

 launched himself in the air with a great fluster, 

 when I dropped him. He proved the most 

 excellent eating with a -certain claret sauce, 

 known to an excellent chef of a friend of mine. 



The sun had already got to some height above 

 the horizon when we at last discerned a herd of 

 gazelle. 



After a careful examination through the glasses 

 I came to the conclusion there was nothing big 

 amongst the lot, and was just going to lower them 

 when to the left I noted a movement, and up got 

 a buck with what I took to be a very fine pair of 

 horns. ' Should be a record,' I muttered. 



The buck ran about half-way across a fiat, 

 sandy plain intersected by a ravine, near the edge 

 of which they stood. They had not apparently 

 perceived us, and seeing that there was no cover on 

 the plain, we moved back and made a cast to the 

 right and got behind a low sand-hill, by keeping 

 to the lee-side of which we could approach the 

 ravine. 



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