hunting-guide

Updated: July 29, 2026

Besides, if they captured him, the worst he would get would be a cut across the neck with a sjambok for acting as hunting-guide to a detested Rooitbaaitje; whilst as for me, they would in all probability discredit my tale concerning the hunting trip, and give me a free, but rapid, pass to that land which we all hope to see eventually, but none of us are anxious to start for; because a correspondent has no right to carry a rifle during war time, a thing I never do unless I am out hunting.

A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales - Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900): Letters from the Front