Mr. Jack Young and his brother Quentin were in town, so was was Mr. Ralph Holder, and the former very kindly suggested that the other should accompany him on a wild game hunting expedition to the famous Gong-ga. No silks were necessary and musi was just th stuff, The lama left the town and a few days later Messrs. Jack Young, Quentin Young, Fred Hardenbrook, and Namka Dendru, with several hunters and servants passed through the south gate on the way to the rear snow mountain. They had four ula animals and on these they piled all that was necessary for a two months trip to the home of the takin, the panda, the grizzly bear and the beautiful pheasant. The expedition walked, Hardenbrook was quite prepared to do anything. The adventure It appealed to him was thrilling. Shooting bears was a decided change and moreover, there was a lamasery belonging to the Garjuba quite near and with the aid of Namka, Harden-brook was prepared to shoot takin and study Lamaism. The American saw no incompatibility with the Lamas four initial vows, namely, not to take life, not to marry, not to steal and not to lo, Mr. Hardenbrook's interest in life was largely. seademie and he wag.on holiday, s" why not! shoot bears, and study the lama's religion when the bears were too far away or too near?
The unfortunate thing was that! the young man from Rochester was not quite clear when he saw an animal whether it was domestic otherwise so any unwary pig or chicken, like the prodigal away from heme, ran very great risks. One day a domestic pig was shot but the bullet which shortened Its life was! not the kind used by the expedition, though the family stoutly maintained it was. Another day an extraordinary chicken paid the price of wandering too far from the family roost.
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