And we have made lists of guns, and medicines, and tinned things, in case we should ever happen to go elephant shooting in Africa.

But we weren't going to hurt the elephants.
Once R.H.D.shot a hippopotamus and he was always ashamed and sorry.

I think he never killed anything else.

He wasn't that kind of a sportsman.
Of hunting, as of many other things, he has said the last word.

Do you remember the Happy Hunting Ground in "The Bar Sinister"?
--"Where nobody hunts us, and there is nothing to hunt." Experienced persons tell us that a man-hunt is the most exciting of all sports.