nkah coolie was fanning an

d poor Carl in the moment of her return. It was but a moment e

mother discover that her boy was missing, until

t the wild hogs in the bamboo swamps, with a party of his friends, and plenty o

his help. He started forth alone with his

reat heat. The jackal pack had retired with the growing daylight; the tiger had slunk away before the rising sun. Well might Mr. Desborough shudder and turn away from the remnants of the dead buffalo, as he trembled for the fate of his child. The country all arou

e watercourse to a succession of glist

g its margin. Mr. Desborough mounted his horse, and galloped after th

he leaned down from his saddle, and made them smell the hat and

master's face with their keen, intelligent e

rs there, who had risen with the sun, and were watering their fields and gardens before the business o

ined the servants, who were throwing stones among the bush

le enclosure, which was neither yard nor garden, but partly both. He knew the aged Hindu had been a chakoo, or look-out, in his prime. The diffe

very man

bout the roots of the luxuriant fruit-trees shading the low mud hut in whi

ks to light his fire in the on

me to the sahib's assistance. The shouts of Mr. Desborough's servants, as they hurled ab

erous propensity of the wolves in May, and

the wolf was probably hiding in one of the coverts near. If they scared her out, she might drop the child; for i

eless on his shoulder, for he might shoot his child. He could only follow the example of his coolies, and join his shouts to theirs, until they wakened the echoes. Jackal, wo

, "up with the sunrise, like myself, to catch a mouthful of fresher a

ning ride betimes, foreseeing still greater heat as the d

lls, and the wild beasts are driven to the cultured plains to seek for water. I heard a tiger grunting all night in

tracted father in the face, as he added, "Be a man, Desborough. Thank

ure him he heard the cry of a child from the grass by the river, pointing as

ly, provoked to see his poor friend tantalized w

ing of monkeys and screaming of birds. He looked at the wide plains around him, and at the great herds of graceful, delicate-limbed, smoke-coloured cattle, which were now being slowly driven out to pasture. For the brief tropical twilight was over, and day had fairly begun. The air was full of cries. The voices of the night had but given place to the myriad voices

ng lurking within it. Afraid of hurling stones at a venture into such a tangled mass, the coolies armed themselves with long sticks, which they

ed pig," persisted the major. "It is

esborough had chosen his post already, on the opposite side, and was watching as if he were all eye, a

riend. "Have a care for your own life! No

But the friends knew well what it meant. A party of travellers were approaching, and their ti

t. They were led by a grim old boar with giant tusks, the very picture of savage ferocity. He glared around him, ready to charge the enemy who had dared to disturb him. He was followed by pigs of every age and size, from a venerable sow, tottering along from

g one of the narrow paths which divided the rice-fields, just in front of the bristling array of fiery eyes and curling tails. He saw a lady's dandy-that is, a kind of canoe-shaped seat with a canopy-carried on two men's shoulders. There it was in the line of the angry pigs. The danger to

ttle pony in the rear, pressed forward through the standing rice which had hitherto concealed him, and planted him

ured by silence. The furious boar came on, foaming and champing his enormous tusks; but the well-timed shots urged him forward. He crossed the path of the travellers within a dozen yards

ajor, with a laugh he intended to prove rea

un-hat hid every bit of his face except the firm-set white lips. The major had seen enough. He dismounted, and assisted in lifting the dandy out of the

isturbed. The birds, with a tameness which astonished the young travellers,

are you?" entreated a g

k-holly," pointing as he spoke in the direction of the village nearest to the indigo factory. "You had better join force

e voice within. "Oliver, Oli

ound the grass clump, and with one accord the li

spurring in advance. Had his friend for

eck emerging from the tufted grass. The tall blades swayed and quivered with the report. There was a smothered shuffling sound, a heavy thu

esborough," obs

ang as mine, but it cannot give me b