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Perhaps it was unreasonable to feel cross, but 
I did, and made up my mind to do a stalk on 
my own account next morning. I let him go 
off alone early and then got up to carry out a 
scheme carefully planned with one of the 
chaprassis and the old syce. They knew a 
likely place for geese, and were all enthusiasm 
to take me there. We did great deeds of dar¬ 
ing. We forded creeks, led the horse over 
possible quicksands and threatening bogs, and 
then, at last, we saw our geese feeding quietly 
in a field of gram. 
I dismounted and walked forward warily, 
hidden by my pony; then as we got nearer, I 
crawled on alone grovelling on hands and knees 
and taking advantage of every bit of cover. 
There was such a dear little bush—it was only 
twenty yards in front—once it was reached, I 
would show no mercy, but, at last, would shoot 
a goose, whether it sat or flew. I was within 
five yards of my bush and happiness when a 
shot rang out in the distance, putting up my 
birds just one minute too soon, and my careful 
stalk was all in vain. It was too much. I lost 
heart and hope, to say nothing of my temper, 
and for days completely abandoned my quest. 
Our tour was nearly over, the boating part of it 
finished in fact. My husband had planned to 
reach our last camp by a long cross-country 
ride, inspecting two or three villages on the 
way, while I was to go by the shorter direct 
route. 
We were within a couple of miles of the 
camp when the old chaprassi, who was riding 
near, came up to tell me that geese were at 
hand. At first I declined to get down—my past 
experiences had been too bitter. He was per¬ 
sistent, however. They were so near it was 
only a question of crawling cautiously up the 
high bank to the left, and the geese were 
dead birds. 
I yielded, and sure enough there were the 
birds, a round dozen of them sitting on a mud 
bank in the center of the creek. Even as we 
looked they got up and two fell to my first 
barrel. _ They flapped and fluttered, but villagers 
swam into the water and secured them, and I 
proceeded onward full of pride, scarcely able to 
wait for the glorious moment when I could 
produce them in triumph to my husband. He 
came at last bringing six or seven snipe, a teal 
and five mallard. 
Looking almost contemptuously at his bag, I 
said: “I have done better than that; two 
enormous geese and with only one barrel.” 
“Show me your geese.” I have said before 
that my husband is a truthful man and do not, 
for a moment suggest that he should have 
prevaricated on this occasion. But he need 
not have been so convulsed with laughter, and 
at least that chaprassi might have told me the 
difference between a goose and a cormorant.— 
W. O. B. in The Asian. 
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handed a leopard which sprang on him. He 
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it in one front and one hind paw, whereupon 
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the charge, and struck him full just as he turned. 
It bit him in one arm, biting again and again 
at it worked up the arm from the wrist to the 
elbow; but Akely threw it, holding its throat 
with the other hand, and flinging its body to 
one side. It luckily fell on its side with its 
two wounded legs uppermost, so that it could 
not tear him. He fell forward with it and 
crushed in its chest with his knees until he dis¬ 
tinctly felt one of its ribs crack; this, said 
Akely, was the first moment when he felt he 
might conquer. Redoubling his efforts, with 
knees and hand, he actually choked and crushed 
the life out of it, although his arm was badly 
bitten. A leopard will charge at least as readily 
as one of the big beasts, and is rather more apt 
to get his charge home, but the risk is less to 
life than to limb.—Scribner’s. 
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