New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-08
STORIES OF INDIA.
From The 81. Lnmes's Gazette.

From The ST. Jdmess Gazette
The British army as Lord Satoun knew 1t, was
the army of Charles Levers days when competitive
examinations had not even cast their shadows be-
fore and when officers entered at seventeen-about
four years before the age at which they generally
enter now. They drank much, delighted in prac-
tical Jokes, and fought duels-tOr the most part in
earnest but now and then, as in one of the stories
told by Lord SaltOun, for the amusement of their
brother officers. Two officers who had been dining
out, and, after heavy consumption of wine re-
turned to barracks to finish up with grog, began by
disputing and ended by insulting each other In
stead of allowing them to go to bed TO wake up IN
the morning with an unsettled quarrel on hand, the
Onookers decided that the matter ought to be set
tied at and the temporarily estTanged friends
were taken into a field, where they were allowed TO
blaze away at one another with muskets containing
nothing but powder and wadding. After this blood
ess meeting it is edifying and instructive, show
ing the manners OF the tlme TO read that they re-
turned to barracks for one more "good glass Of
grOg" before retiring TO rest.
Lord SatOun seems passiOnatey fond of animals !;
and he has one really admirable chapter deer
hounds. He tells tale, too of greyhound which
he found starving on .dungheap and restored 10
life health and beauty by of cold brandy and
water In India he shot tigers; and at Gibraltar
soldier of his regiment caught the famous rock
young ape and brought it to the colonel expecting
no doubt, to be rewarded for his offering. The
colonel however, was, according to his lights, hu-
name man, ana blaming the soldier Ior taxing the
little creature from beneath the parental care,
ordered it to be restored to the bosom of its family
An old ape however, who received it on its return,
seemed to think that its visit to the haunts of men
had rendered it unfit for the society of its fellow
uuadrumanes. He took il in his arms looked at IT,
smelt it, and then killed it by biting it at the back
of the neck In the Bombay Presidency Lord Sal
toon shot bustards wary birds which cannot easily
be approached, though there is one simple MEANS as
Lord SaltOun was soon taught. An officer expert
enced in theI sport, seeing cart go by laden with
straw reeds sent his shkarry 10 arrange with the
driver to circle round the birds while the two
spOrtsmen walked in the shelter of the cart. The
birds accustomed to the carts Of the natives
that until they are on the point of being run over
they will not move; and when, III circlng round
Them the cart appears to be always passing though
gradually drawing nearer and nearer they stand
and gaze at it. The attacking party succeeded by
these means i'll getting within sixty yards OF their
victims, and two shots brought down two birds
On another occasion Lord Saltoun had prepared to
shoot antelOpes, when suddenly he had the luck to
fall in with party of five wolves. The wolves also
had designs the antelopes and went to work in a
very remarkable manner. All five in the first place
scraped hole in the ground, and in this hole one
of the party lay down. At some distance from the
first hole they scratched q second in which second
wolf concealed himself. The remaining three
wolves advanced further on and made third hole,
in which the third wolf established himself. The
two wolves still at liberty now crawed toward the
anteOpes, taking advantage OF every little bush or
inequality in the ground that could afford them
shelter until, IN true skrTnshlng style, they got
within striking distance of the enemy whose flank
they had turned, and dashed upon them. The
wolves had attacked on the basis OF regular
strategic plan and though no antelope fell beneath
the first rush of the assalants, one of them was
driven in the direction of the ambuscades. The
wolf in hole number one sprang out and turned the
frightened animals course, as TO send her along
the line of pits. She passed wide of hole number
two, but attacked at short distance by the oc-
cupant of hole number three. Then the sportsman
shot the wounded antelope to put her out of her
misery, and the wolf to punish HIM for his murder
GUS act IL would rather have got another of the
she could not have lived and 1t was a mercy to kill
her ut once"