The natives as a rule, and especially the lower classes, are excessively work at home When we want to get up a hunt, we generally send to the nearest _batan_ for _khubber_, i. There were some nasty drop jumps, and deep, hidden ditches, and accidents were frequent. Like all the deer tribe, they are very curious, and a bit of rag tied to a tree, or a cloth put over a bush, will not unfrequently entice them within range. On the appointed day all the males in the forest villages, without exception, go a-hunting. In the cold mornings of December or January it hangs about like the peat smoke in a Highland village. They will superintend the staff of blacksmiths; and if the sewing-machine of the _mem sahib_, the gun-lock of the _luna sahib_, the lawn-mower, English pump, or other machine gets out of order, requiring any metal work, the _mistree_ is called in, and is generally competent to put things to rights.
A sprinkling of thinly-veneered, half-educated natives, want a share of the loaves and fishes in political scrambling, and a few inane people of the 'man and brother' type, cry out at home to let them have work at home way. Everyone is known among the natives, who have seen him since his birth living amongst them, by some pet name. The old factory head man got businesses who need work at home employees some milk, eggs, and _chupatties_; and about three in the afternoon we started for the head factory. One peculiarity often noticed by sportsmen is, that they always go to the same spot when they want to obey the calls of nature.