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DANGEROUS GAME. 



The leopard must be kept off for a moment, for if those frightful claws were given 

 but a single chance, they would play mortal havoc with the handsome face and ath- 

 letic frame of the youth. 



Three shots still remained in the magazine of the Winchester, and no three cart- 

 ridges were ever discharged with more celerity. Every one, too, found a lodgment 

 in the body of the beast, and they settled the business. 



Deprived of the power of assault, and mortally wounded in half a dozen places, 

 the brute rolled upon his back, with a rasping snarl, his claws beating the air like 

 lightning for a few seconds, and then he became still and motionless. 



LEOPARD. 



With the coolness of Gordon Gumming himself, Bob Marshall stood aside and 

 calmly surveyed his game, after all semblance of life had departed. 



"That's the biggest leopard I ever saw," said he, "though Mr. Godkin tells me 

 that he has seen larger in India, the home of the tiger. The usual length of the 

 animal is four feet, with its tail a little more than half as much, but this fellow is 

 fully five feet long, and he would have been a terrible foe if I had allowed him to 

 close in with me." 



I am quite sure all my readers have seen specimens of the leopard, which, like 

 the cat, belongs to the Felts species. You have admired his rich, yellowish fawn 



