ed 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.

In the present instance my deductions proved pretty correct. I
saw the couple later on, followed by their collie dog, riding
along a lower road; but I could not determine their relationship
to one another.

_Note on Examples I. and II._

Incidentally, the horse-tracks of No. 2 gave me a clue to the
hour at which the invalid in the rickshaw had passed that way.
Thus: I came on the droppings at 7.14.

Assuming that they were actually 15 minutes old and the horses
had walked 1/4 mile since passing the rick