GAME TO THE LAST. 



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appearance, assegai in hand, and soon had their 

 weapons plunged into the irascible beast. Half the 

 thrusts it got, any one would have supposed would 

 produce instant death ; not so. Bravely the poor 

 wretch struggled on for many minutes before life was 

 extinct. An African buffalo is as game as a wild 

 boar, and that of a certainty is saying enough to 

 attest to its pluck. 



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