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and, when maddened by wounds, have been known to pull 

 down a man in a tree. This happened once in an expe- 



CUM1IING S CAP FRIGHTENS THE TIGER 



dition of Colonel Gordon Cumming's, when he took his 



stand with his gun-bearer on some branches which grew 



about eight feet up the stem of a tall tree. The tree was 



it x 



