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Next morning revealed a tuft of long singed hair near 

 the half-eaten plums, with a fraction of skin attached. 

 Farther up the path led the tracks of a tigress, and they 

 met, or nearly met, those of a bear. Here was the expla- 

 nation of the hurry of the first visitor to me under the 

 plum trees. 



