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other consideration, it pays to look after one's 

 servants in camp. They work all the better 

 for it, and as the success of the trip depends in a 

 great measure on their being happy and well, the 

 sportsman in his own interests is well advised to 

 consider theirs. They should be dosed periodic- 

 ally with quinine, and told to report themselves 

 at once if feeling ill. 



It is advisable, though not absolutely neces- 

 sary, to take two servants with one. They are 

 happier together ; besides, there is too much 

 work for one for any length of time. He has to 

 cook, to clean the plates and dishes, make the 

 bed, lay the table, and do a hundred and one 

 things which are always needing looking to in 

 camp. Your one servant is, perhaps, cooking 

 dinner under difficulties in heavy rain. He rushes 

 into your tent with the soup, only to find on his 

 return that a pariah dog has rim off with the 

 roast chicken. Master makes a poor dinner on 

 cold sardines, and turns in in anything but a 

 pacific frame of mind, while wretched Pir Dost, 

 wet, tired and irritable, sets to work to cook 

 his own frugal meal, cursing himself the while 

 for being idiot enough to leave his comfortable 

 quarters in cantonments for such a fool's jaunt 

 as this one. Or it may be that after a long 

 march you arrive on your camping-ground just 

 as a steady drizzle sets in. Boy goes off to cook 

 dinner, and master is left with a pack of ignorant 



