36 FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
horns have reached, to notice the direction the trail 
has taken, and to judge, if possible, where the retreat 
of the daytime has been selected, and the way that 
has been taken to reach it. 
It was when I was in the Bahraich forests that I 
commenced to keep dogs for hunting, and to carry a 
rifle on horseback. I found for killing foxes, hares, 
and jackals in the open, or deer on the borders of 
the forest, that English greyhounds were too speedy, 
also that they would not tackle; moreover, they 
were too delicate to stand the damp cold of the 
Tarai, and were more often than not laid up with 
broken nails from the hard, rough ground. I, how- 
ever, got good serviceable lurchers by crossing a 
Persian greyhound with a pointer slut, and these 
dogs would hunt by scent, run to sight, and oc- 
casionally of their own free will retrieve such small 
game as hares. They would also pull down any 
deer, generally an easy matter, for, as far as my 
experience goes, a stag when run into and thrown 
without coming to bay rarely attempts to rise, 
though when bayed it is only too ready with hoofs 
and horns. As a rule the stags of the Oudh forests 
were tackled on the run, and at once thrown, the 
dogs immediately attacking the groin-pits of the 
unfortunate animals. Pigs, too, they would run 
and bring to bay ; but though they on more than 
one occasion treed a panther, they would not tackle 
a wild-dog, but sat round him growling. It seems 
at first curious that a panther should run from dogs, 
when it is remembered that he is inordinately fond 
of their flesh, and will take risks to make a meal of 
it; but he has a well-reasoned horror of the wild- 
