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cartridge would account for birds up to 
25 or 30 yards. The 20 boring may also find 
place as the under barrel of an over-and- 
under gun, the upper barrel being a rifle. 
But if a man must shoot fast-flying full- 
plumaged birds, at 40 yards, he will kill 
more birds and furnish fewer excuses to 
his friends if armed with a 12 than with 
a 20. 
BIG GAME 
SHOOTING 
IN INDIA 
I N the course of a lecture on “Big Game 
Shooting in India” Mr. Alfred Ezra 
gave some interesting details in connec¬ 
tion with elephants and their usefulness in 
hunting. He said the grass was so tall 
that all shooting was done from the backs 
of elephants. Both the animals and their 
drivers were highly trained, and when the 
Maharajah wanted a guest to have first 
shot, the tiger could be beaten out to any 
particular gun desired. It was a country 
where one came across tiger, bear, rhino, 
buffalo, bison, swamp deer and other game, 
and one advantage of hunting on the back 
of an elephant was that the animals, being 
accustomed to see wild elephants about, 
took no notice. Only' a good elephant 
would stand the charge of a tiger; hardly 
any would stand that of a rhino. Out of 
eighty in the Maharajah’s stables only half 
a dozen would do this. The mahout was 
partly responsible for the fact, as, if he 
thought the sportsman was a poor shot, and 
the elephant stood a chance of being gored, 
he would just touch the animal behind the 
ears with his toes, when the elephant would 
at once turn round and trot off. During 
the shooting season the elephant had a hard 
time of it; he would be out from six in 
the morning till eight at night. It might 
be ten at night when he got home and com¬ 
menced feeding. Every elephant had three 
servants to wait on him—the chief man, 
who was in charge during the shooting; the 
second man, to whose care the elephant 
was turned over when he returned; and a 
little boy, one of whose functions was to 
feed the elephant with rice. This was given 
in addition to the fodder, which the ele¬ 
phant ate when stabled. The boy would 
wrap some rice in hay and give this to the 
elephant. This performance would go on 
by the hour. It was usual to mount by the 
tail; the elephant put out his leg, you 
scrambled on to his back. As for tigers, if 
the villagers brought in news that a cow 
had been killed, on going to the place the 
next day one was practically certain to get 
the tiger. The young tigers were much 
more destructive than the old, because they 
killed for practice; but the fully-grown 
tiger was usually satisfied with one kill. In 
some districts, the tigers showed much 
more fight than in others. There were 
tigers that would charge without being 
wounded, and others that, even when 
wounded, would not fight.—[British Sports¬ 
man. 
A Celluloid comb if shaved up into small 
pieces it can be made to propel a bullet. 
Do not try the experiment, however, be¬ 
cause you may get much more powerful 
results than you anticipate. 
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