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other's throats, and their claws dug deeply into 

 the neck, they rose to the contest on their hind- 

 legs, straining, and tugging, and wrestling, as 

 it were, with each other. They stood six feet 

 as they thus grappled, their claws being firmly 

 fixed in the neck on both sides, each bleeding 

 freely. At last Ragra overthrew his rival, and 

 got him beneath him on his back, but it was 

 only for a moment. While the hind claws of 

 Ragra were being fixed in the belly of his foe, 

 the latter, who never let go his hold for an 

 instant with his mouth, struck one of his fore- 

 paws over the face of the other. The claws 

 evidently pierced Ragra's eyes, and one of them 

 was torn from the socket. He gave a howl of 

 pain, and tried to free himself from the other, 

 which, however, he was not allowed to do, for 

 Terai clung to his throat, in which his teeth 

 were deeply fixed, and then all at once he leaped 

 from his prostrate position and got on the top of 

 the other. The contest was now, in fact, at an 

 end. Ragra, thus fallen beneath his foe and 

 fast losing his blood, was unable to regain the 

 advantage he had lost. Then Terai, thrusting 

 one of his paws under the lower jaw of the 

 other, forced back the head further until he had 



