He was fined a thousand rupees and sentenced to six months in jail!" "Very severe!" I said.
"They are altogether too severe," he answered.

"I hope you have killed nothing.

It is good you came first to me.

You would better stand that rifle over here in the corner of my tent.

To walk back to the hotel with it over your shoulder would be dangerous." "I've taken bigger chances than that," said I.
"If you have shot nothing, then it is not so serious," he said, disappearing behind a curtain into the recesses of his tent.
He stayed in there for about ten minutes.