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Chamois and bear hunting First battue Luxurious dinner 5000 feet above the sea-level Storm in the night Discomforts The bear's supper The eagle's breakfast Second and third day's shooting Baking a friend as a cure for fever Striking camp View into Roumania. We started for our first battue in capital time, taking with us a crowd of Wallack beaters.
Above this pastoral landscape, bare crags upheld a snowpeak; and, as if to lend a human interest to the scene, the old Marquess, his flintlock on his shoulder, his dogs and beaters at his heels, now rode across the valley.
On the fourth day, still crowded outward and toward the ragged edge of the mountain world, they found, for the first time, no water to fill their bottles. Realising their plight, McKay turned desperately westward, facing pursuit, ranging the now narrow forest in hopes of an opportunity to break through the closing line of beaters.
The real Lord Greystoke had not two guns, to be sure, nor even one, neither did he have a smart loader; but he possessed something infinitely more efficacious than guns, or loaders, or even twenty-three beaters in white smocks he possessed an appetite, an uncanny woodcraft, and muscles that were as steel springs.
They felt bored and homesick unless taken after tiger as beaters; and their cold-blooded daring all Wuddars shoot tigers on foot: it is their caste-mark made even the officers wonder.
Waiting for an instant, till I could get my aim clear of some intervening trees, I at length got a fair shot, and brought her down with a ball through the throat. H. and Pat came running up, and we congratulated ourselves on our success. By and bye Mehrman Singh and the rest of the beaters came up, and the joy of the villagers was gratifying.
This I attribute very much to the want of proper deerhounds, which unfortunately I have not been able to procure. The crowd of beaters make so much noise that the deer slip away at the sides of the thick covers unseen, whereas dogs would drive them more in a straight line towards the shooters if they are properly posted.
One after another of the riders followed the leaders down the narrow track, trotted across the sandy, rock-strewn river-bed and climbed up the far side to where the fresh horses and a picturesque mob of wild-looking beaters stood awaiting them. Among the animals Wargrave noticed a smart grey Arab pony with a side-saddle. "I see Mrs.
Now, bears do not, as a rule, without extraordinary reason, in that land, rouse themselves out of their winter sleep for the mere whine of a wolf. They are impregnable where they are, and know it. The extraordinary reason, however, was present. The white wolf was sniffing at it now the bear's blood-trail to the windfall. Bruin had been roused once before that day by beaters.
Another thing is that you can't get the native hunters and beaters to work for you as they did years ago." "So Poddington wrote to me that he was going to take his assistants, make a big jump, and hike it for the Argentine Republic. He had a tip that along the Salado river there might be something doing, and I told him to go ahead."
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