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A shikari one day brought in from 

 these plains the skins of a pair of these 

 animals, both of which he had shot while 

 they were dragging off a calf. He killed 

 one wolf, and found that its companion, 

 instead of running away, continued its 

 attack upon the calf, so that he had time 

 to load again and shoot it also. 



From the same wild plains a shepherd 

 brought me a large python which had 

 seized a kid, and which he had killed 

 with a heavy quarter staff, beating it 

 down when it reared itself up at him, 

 and breaking the spine, much as we had 

 killed the python at Belikeri in Canara. 



Snakes of many other kinds abounded 

 at Chetterpur, and were frequently killed 

 in or about the house. A snake of some 

 size escaped from under my wife's chair 



