The lives of man and beast demand the change; Hence fowls the air, and fish the ocean range.

In this way I have no boasts to make, having always found it necessary to allow a considerable number of weeks for the purpose of making fowls fat in coops.

By noon there were some sixty in the straggling ranks, but when shortly afterward they met a squad of eighteen rallying whites, armed like themselves mainly with fowling pieces with birdshot ammunition, they fled at the first fire, and all but a score dispersed.

Of course I had read of themoftenand knew exactly what sort of creatures they arefearful wild fowl who come to India for six weeks "Comprehend in half a mo' What it takes a man ten years or so To know that he will never know," tell the native they want to be a brother to him, and go home to write a book about the way India is misgoverned.