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ON THE TRAIL OF A MAN-EATER

trees to have hidden in some bushes on the edge of a ravine. Slowly the elephants followed in his trail, when suddenly


THE ELEPHANT TRIED TO GORE THE TIGER WITH HIS TUSKS


the tiger broke away from his hiding place, about eighty yards away. They fired, and this time he was touched,