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The history of one half of his hide [animal shot in Gorakhpur] given to me by Mr Clutterbuck was curious. I brought to England a monstrous slab some inches in thickness and it remained on my hands until I was die to return to India. Already I had in contemplation a midnight journey through London to end by hurling it from the top of a four-wheeler into the murky waves of the river, when I fortunately met an enthusiastic golfer, who faced his drivers with rhinoceros hide, and attributed lightness and elasticity to the material. So to him joyfully I handed over the skin, and received in return a cheque for the cost of carriage to England, and a generous gift of two of the manufactured clubs; and later I often wondered, when congratulating myself on placing this skin so satisfactorily, how many pieces of the Gorakhpur rhinoceros were still wandering around the golf-links of the world.
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Forest life and sport in India
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