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In truth, I sometimes need a companion; and I think, by his face, that this officer will be an agreeable one. To what post, think you, had I best appoint him?" "As he is a famous shikaree, I should say that it would be suitable were you to make him director of the chase." "But I never go hunting." "That is true; but in time, when your occupations of state lessen, you might do so," Nana said.
One day the fellow who always carried my spare gun or flask, and who was a sort of shikaree in a small way, told me he had heard that a farmer whose house stood near the edge of the Ghauts, some two miles away, had been seriously annoyed by his fruit and corn being stolen by bears. " I'll go and have a look at the place tomorrow, I said; 'there is no parade, and I can start early.
For some moments he stood upon the bank, watching the futile efforts which the animal was making to free itself, all the while talking to it, and taunting it with spiteful speeches for Ossaroo had been particularly indignant at the loss of his skirt. When at length the last twelve inches of the elephant's trunk was all that remained above the surface, the shikaree could hold back no longer.
The tardy monarch keeps myself and a large crowd of attendants waiting a full hour at the gate, ere he puts in an appearance. The shikaree, upon seeing me ride, and not being able to comprehend how one can possibly maintain the equilibrium, exclaims: "Oh, ayab Ingilis." At length the word goes round that the Shah is coming.
The tigress on this quickly drew out her fearfully-mangled paw, leaving the crocodile to plunge with a loud flop into the water, deprived of its expected prey; while she, fearing perhaps that it might again return to seize her, crawled back howling with pain towards the thicket. "Shoot, sahib! Shoot!" exclaimed the shikaree wallah; but Reginald had not the heart to do so.
"He is indeed a wonderful young man," observed the shikaree wallah. "How courageously he walked up to the tiger; it makes my knees even now tremble to think of it. Wallah, he is a brave youth." As Reginald walked on, with his hand on the tigress's head, he considered what name he should give the animal.
Caspar contemplated his movements with an undefined interest; while Karl watched them with feelings of the keenest anxiety. The cunning shikaree had not come to the spot unprepared. Having anticipated some difficulty in getting hold of the storks, he had providentially provided a lure, which, in the event of their proving shy, might attract them within reach of his ringall.
The shikaree stayed only a few minutes on its top; and his curiosity having been satisfied, he had let himself down again.
He was a good shikaree and could hold his own either at polo or at billiards; but being somewhat shy and not a little clumsy he did not frequent race-balls nor throw himself in the way of "destroying angels." He had been over a dozen years in the district and had not been known to propose once, so that he had come to be set down as a misogynist.
On coming within view of it, they descried the shikaree sitting upon a stone, just by the doorway; and lying across his knee, a most beautiful bird by far the most beautiful that either flies in the air, swims in the water, or walks upon the earth the peacock.
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