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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...we could not believe as those animals very seldom come into this neighborhood, but thought it must be a hyena, or perhaps a jackel, the man had seen. But to make sure we went over and had a peek into the hole. And true enough, there lay a leopard glaring at us from out of the semi-darkness of the culvert. Its eyes looked like two burning coals, and as we were unarmed we thought it best to keep at a safe distance. All the available weapons at the mission consisted of an old pistol and a double barrel shot gun of which one of the barrels was cracked and useless. It was clear that if the leopard was to be killed it would have to be done by strategy. If we shot at it and wounded it someone would be sure to be either mauled or killed by it, as a wounded leopard is one of the most dangerous animals to have to deal with. Quite a number of men gathered and we held a council of war. After discussing the pros and cons, public opinion seemed to concur in that drowning would be both as safe and painless a death as we could think of for the leopard. The hole or culvert in which the animal had taken refuge is an opening about three feet high and the same width, running through an earth embankment, which is over fifty feet wide. The outer end of the culvert we decided to block up with an old door, and at the other end which comes out a couple of feet above the water of the reservoir we would place a large, strong fish-net. The plan was to get Mr. Spots to leave his refuge by the back door, get tangled up in the net and dragged into the water, where we thought we could dispatch him in ease and comfort. People were gathering fast. How they found out that a hunt was on, I do not know. But within an hour there must have been about a hundred men present, all of them more or le...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781152608658
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1152608657
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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