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A Lucknow Derby-day Sights of the city Grand Trunk Road to Delhi Delhi The Coutub Agra The fort and Taj The ruins of Futtehpore Secreh A loquacious cicerone A visit to the fort of Gwalior The Mahratta Durbar Tiger-shooting on foot.
Why, you'd never have thought it amiss in me to go off tiger-shooting for a bit. You'd have had your whack of travelling, playing the grass widow; you'd have entertained, had all sorts of little games and both of us been all the better. No! But it was just because our relationship was so infernally irregular that you felt those separations took them, if I may say it, so hard.
"I can't give you any tiger-shooting, but I'll promise you that you shall find plenty of pheasants in our jungle," and he laughed very gently at this mild sally. The Colonel gave him a queer look. "I shall be at Newcome before the winter. I shall be there, please God, before many days are over." "Indeed!" says the Baronet, with an air of great surprise.
The men appeared to take an intense interest in the sport, and in the regularity of the arrangements, as they were equally aware with myself of the necessity for strict order and discipline, where only one solitary gun represented the offensive capacity of the line. The ordinary method of tiger-shooting with a long line of elephants comprises five or six guns placed at intervals.
"Of course my children are Indian by inheritance; then there are Mr. Kirby and Mr. Errington" nodding to the dark man next Lady Alice "and Colonel Ormonde." "I am not Indian, you know; I was only quartered in India for a few years," returned Ormonde, contradictiously. "And I was only a visitor for one season's tiger-shooting," said Brereton.
Madame revealed herself to him, no longer as the seductive siren, but as a true-hearted colleague and helper. He saw her not only as a beautiful and most compelling fascinator, before whom he had grovelled, but as a big-brained and big-souled friend. "She is the only woman whom I have ever met with whom I would go tiger-shooting," said Rust to me.
Nearly all the fatalities in tiger-shooting are caused by careless shooting, which necessitates the following up a blood-track; it is therefore imperative that extreme care and coolness be observed in taking a steady aim at a vital portion of the body, that will ensure the death of the animal at latest within a few minutes.
Criticism was high treason. Sport, such as tiger-shooting, was for those whose age and apoplectic temper rendered them least fitted for it. Conservatism reigned: "High Toryism, sir, old port, and proud Prerogative!"
Two more tigers were killed, one of which sprang out in the same way as the first; while a third, though wounded, stole off through the jungle. "Tiger-shooting from the back of an elephant is but slow work, after all," exclaimed Burnett the next morning, as they were breakfasting in the house of the chief man of the village, where they had slept. "I propose that we try what we can do on foot.
The loft of Baobab Villa was full of these glorious trophies. Hence all Tarascon acknowledged him as master; and as Tartarin thoroughly understood hunting, and had read all the handbooks of all possible kinds of venery, from cap-popping to Burmese tiger-shooting, the sportsmen constituted him their great cynegetical judge, and took him for referee and arbitrator in all their differences.
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