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had evidently not been able to reach the lungs owing to 

 the enormous thickness of the body at this point. My 

 second shoulder shot was too low. The frontal one, at 

 about twenty yards or less as he charged, had merely 

 floored him. He was too far spent, however, or his last 

 charge would have in all probability got us. For he had 

 cunningly doubled on his tracks, a nasty trick of this animal 

 when wounded, and thus taken us in the rear. 



