The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-13
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An Encounter In Indi. with h I'm
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II was amid the pretty broken country
round Poorundhuf, not faT from Poona, in
the Bombay rresidency-a country OF trap
hills and vast plains of black soil. which
splits open in summer time. with innulasr-
able Wide ~fssurss. into which the lizards
and hsld rats take headers a. you walk,
and the snakes glide back and forth, writes
Sir Edwin Arnold In the London Tele-
graph. / had been shooting quail. with
none but native attendants, and ~ the sun
touched the western horizon We came to
the edge Of = deep glen. wooded with
rounded clustered bushes. between which
showed patches Of yellow grass.
Down in that nullah, Gharib- parwar"--
fprotector Of the peot)-"thsrs are plenty
Of dser.and harss; and. psrhapA . leopard"
remarked my Mahratta shikari.
Get fifty people Of the village" an
svered, "to-morrow morning early, n lot
us beat the nulla from top TO bottom. We
can do it if"
.Dekho! Dekhow interrupted Raglan;
'look, sahsh. lookw And where he pointed
saw something in she upper part Of the
valley moving downward. which might be
ANYTHING. Obeying a not very Wise In
stinot-for the light was rapidly falling!
snatched my rifle from ltaehu's hand and
fAn uOWO VIC 8tOp0, no 1uk LAG u
lovely and lonely hollow 1t was in that
silent Indian waist, with its smooth tables
of sand and grass, its green bushy sides and
cascades of wild parasitioal flowers grow
ing on the tree stems, while the tiny gray
Yingdoves fitted cooling from bush to bush,
and from the thin string OF water 1T the
bottom the Deccan ree-wit, who cries.
"Did-you-do-it? Did-you.do-itT" rose,
aware of our presence.
Soon a button quail hustled out of a cane
thickst higher up and settled almost At our
fset-sure sign that something was com
ing. And something did indeed come! We
were standing on . level patch OF clear
ground, with dense clover above and below.
and the twilight. which lasts so briefly in
India. was already growing dim when ont
blundered a big jungle SOW, followed by u
pack of piglets, bsnt. no doubt. on a drink
Of water in the bottom. and afterward the
nightly forage. Mosionless though We
arunted something perfectly Ineligible.
beyond doubt. to her little ones. for they
ali Immediately sourried hard across the
open, hustling their numbering mother. 1t
was ineligible, moreover. to another pair
of bristlv ears, for again the bushes opened
thrust a grand old gray boar-to whom. !
believe. his porcine consort hac hastily re-
marked, my dear! there are hateful men
here. Rip them up-if You can"
At all events he did not seem surprised
TO see us, but champed his lips. Qruntcd in
a quick, angry way, and came straight for
where We stood.
"Marol maro!" cried R~aghsr-"shoot,
shoot"-and. truly, it was no time to have
in mind the regulations of the Poona Hunt
club. I could just catch the sight of the
rifle in the dim evening, as 1 sunk on my
knee. and fred quick, to get both bullets
in. The first caught him on the riRht-h hand
tusk and sent it spinning-but glanced off.
However. the boar turned his head aside a
little at the shock. and just slackened a bit
in a manner to show his broad neck fair
and square. not twelve yards of, so that
my second bullet vent clean through
the cervical vertebra. At the cost Of Il
venatical improperly, Raglan and l were
saved.