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Eight Years’ Wandering in Ceylon

CHAPTER VII
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New legs, new feet, new everything, in a moment! fresh as though just out of bed; here we go tearing through the jungle like a buffalo, and as happy as though we had just come in for a fortune--happier, a great deal.
Nevertheless, elk-hunting is not a general taste, as people have not opportunities of enjoying it constantly.

Accordingly, they are out of condition, and soon be, come distressed and of necessity "shut up" (a vulgar but expressive term).

This must be fine fun for a total stranger rather inclined to corpulency, who has dauntlessly persevered in keeping up with the huntsman, although at some personal inconvenience.

There is a limit to all endurance, and he is obliged to stop, quite blown, completely done.

He loses all sounds of hounds and huntsman, and everything connected with the hunt.


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