NOTE.--This deduction proved correct. On returning from my walk I struck the same track (_i.e._ the wobbly wheel and the one shod man) on another road, going ahead of me. I soon overtook them, and found an old invalid lady being driven in a hired bazaar rickshaw. While following the tracks of the rickshaw, I noticed fresh tracks of two horses coming towards me, followed by a big dog. _They had passed since the rickshaw_ (overriding its tracks). _They were cantering_ (two single hoof-prints, and then two near together). _A quarter of a mile farther on they were walking_ for a quarter of a mile. (Hoof-prints in pairs a yard apart.) Here the dog dropped behind, and had to make up lost ground by galloping up to them. (Deep impression of his claws, and dirt kicked up.) _They had finished the walk about a quarter of an hour_ before I came there. (Because the horse's droppings at this point were quite fresh; covered with flies; not dried outside by the sun.) _They had been cantering up to the point where they began the walk, but one horse had shied violently on passing the invalid in the rickshaw._ (Because there was a great kick up of gravel and divergence from its track just where the rickshaw track bent into the side of the road, and afterwards overrode the horse's tracks.) NOTE.--I might have inferred from this that the invalid was carrying an umbrella which frightened the horse, and was, therefore, a lady. But I did not think of it at the time and had rather supposed from the earliness of the hour that the invalid was a man. Invalid ladies don't, as a rule, get up so early. _Deduction_ _The tracks were those of a lady and gentleman out for a ride, followed by her dog._ Because had the horses been only out exercising with syces they would have been going at a walk in single file (or possibly at a tearing gallop). They were therefore ridden by white people, one of whom was a lady; because, 1st, a man would not take a big, heavy dog to pound along after his horse (it had pounded along long after the horses were walking); 2nd, a man would not pull up to walk because his horse had shied at a rickshaw; but a lady might, especially if urged to do so by a man who was anxious about her safety, and that is why I put them down as a man and a lady. Had they been two ladies, the one who had been shied with would have continued to canter out of bravado. And the man, probably, either a very affectionate husband or no husband at all. NOTE.--I admit that the above deductions hinge on very little--one link might just be wrong and so break the whole chain. This is often, indeed generally, the case, and corroborative evidence should always be sought for.