He wentgoto India with his capital , and there , according to a wild legend in our family , he was once seenseeridingrideon an elephant , in company with a Baboon ; but I think it must have been a Baboo -- or a Begum .
There was now ridingrideoff in all directions to the doctor ’s , to the farrier ’s , and no doubt to Squire Gordon ’s , to let him know about his son .
That afternoon , as I roderidehome through the lengtheninglengthenshadows , a hunter , red-brown and naked , roserisefrom behind a fallen tree that sprawledsprawlacross my path , and made offerofferto bring me my meat from the moon of corn to the moon of stags in exchange for a gun .