There were three white officers, and little enough to do, except when a party was sent off to assist the police.
We had one or two brushes with the Dacoits, but I was not out on either occasion.

However, there was plenty of shooting, and a good many pigs about, so we had very good fun.

Of course, as a raw hand, I was very hot for it, and as the others had both passed the enthusiastic age, except for pig sticking and big game, I could always get away.

I was supposed not to go far from camp, because in the first place, I might be wanted; and, in the second, because of the Dacoits; and Norworthy, who was in command, used to impress upon me that I ought not to go beyond the sound of a bugle.

Of course we both knew that if I intended to get any sport I must go further afoot than this; but I merely used to say 'All right, sir, I will keep an ear to the camp,' and he on his part never considered it necessary to ask where the game which appeared on the table came from.