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Page 10
... gives out . Splendid is the race for the first spear when the boar flies , and quick is the race when the gallant beast is young : cups are given to those who take most first spears in the Cawnpore and Meerut Kadir hunts ; kudos is for ...
... gives out . Splendid is the race for the first spear when the boar flies , and quick is the race when the gallant beast is young : cups are given to those who take most first spears in the Cawnpore and Meerut Kadir hunts ; kudos is for ...
Page 11
... give one such a run as may be enjoyed with the Quorn or Pytchley packs : at the best it treats one to a burst of a mile or so ; it may very possibly decline running altogether . But such run as it does afford is a race of the keenest ...
... give one such a run as may be enjoyed with the Quorn or Pytchley packs : at the best it treats one to a burst of a mile or so ; it may very possibly decline running altogether . But such run as it does afford is a race of the keenest ...
Page 16
... give them something like an intelligible idea of what pig - sticking is , or is not , and enable them to talk innocently , if inanely , of that sport thereafter . But apparently they do not care to bring away merely harmless experiences ...
... give them something like an intelligible idea of what pig - sticking is , or is not , and enable them to talk innocently , if inanely , of that sport thereafter . But apparently they do not care to bring away merely harmless experiences ...
Page 74
... give tongue before outside a zoo , and this was another tongue than that of the caged beast ; but I knew what voice it was , and told myself that my chance had come at last . The tiger did not break , but turned back from the cover's ...
... give tongue before outside a zoo , and this was another tongue than that of the caged beast ; but I knew what voice it was , and told myself that my chance had come at last . The tiger did not break , but turned back from the cover's ...
Page 77
... Poor St George could never give any convincing explanation of his conduct . on that occasion . Why he hauled those tigers from their pits remains a mystery to me . Why he did not shoot or shoot at them when they THE SANTHAL REBELLION . 77.
... Poor St George could never give any convincing explanation of his conduct . on that occasion . Why he hauled those tigers from their pits remains a mystery to me . Why he did not shoot or shoot at them when they THE SANTHAL REBELLION . 77.
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