managed to escape without my seeing him again 

 I know not. 



In a beat at Hunsur, when several guns were 

 posted, a panther entered a bush in front of one 

 of them, but did not come out of it. The beaters 

 came on, but the animal failed to show. 



At last, after all the sportsmen had descended 

 from their posts and had handed their rifles to 

 their peons and horse -keepers, the young officer 

 who had seen the panther, not being satisfied on 

 the point, crawled into the thicket on his hands 

 and knees, whereupon the panther bolted right 

 through the crowd, and made good his escape. 



At Hunsur, when I knew it, there was but one 

 resident European, Mr. H. (a Scotchman), whose 

 health obliged him to live on the Mysore plateau, 

 since he suffered from consumption. He made 

 bone manure for supply to the planters of Coorg, 

 and carried on a general commission agency, also 

 at times performing contract work for my depart- 

 ment in a most satisfactory and reliable manner. 

 He lived with his wife and children in a fine 

 house standing in a large compound. One dark 

 night, just after dinner, while the servants were 

 still going backwards and forwards between the 

 cook-room and the house, Mr. H.'s attention 

 having been attracted by a suspicious noise, he 

 went out to see what had become of a pet sheep 

 which was tied just outside the house, a servant 

 following him with a lantern. He stooped down 

 to feel for the rope by which the sheep was tied, 

 when suddenly a panther, which had killed the 



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