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have been practically instantaneous, otherwise he would 

 certainly have killed me in his dying struggle. 



" The blow he dealt me as he fell had torn my face from 

 ear to ear, and the arm he had held between his teeth was 

 bitten through and through, the flesh and bone being 

 almost reduced to pulp. 



" It had subsequently to be amputated, and it was 

 only due to the weather being comparatively cool that I 

 eventually recovered, but it was a miraculous escape, and 

 an incident in one's life not easy to forget." 



The " big -game " sportsman of the present day, con- 

 fident in the death-dealing qualities of his modern rifle, 

 would do well to learn a lesson from this tale, for too often 

 is he apt to overlook the fact that in a rough-and-tumble 

 encounter with dangerous game, a rifle may be dropped, and 

 that he would then find the human fist but a poor weapon 

 when opposed to teeth and claws. 



Often has the writer heard old sportsmen, whose experi- 

 ence should have made them wiser, deride the novice for 

 carrying a revolver in his belt, little thinking that such 

 ridicule might some day cost the younger man his life. 



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