horn-cases

Updated: June 14, 2025

Here, then, I am in my private sanctum, my rifles all arranged in their respective stands above the chimney-piece, the stags' horns round walls hung with horn-cases, powder-flasks and the various weapons of the chase. Even as I write the hounds are yelling in the kennel. The thermometer is at 62 degrees Fahr., and it is mid-day.

Sir Samuel White Baker - The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon