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former, stood up (his face quite close to Mr. H.'s), 

 and then silently retired. 



Mr. H. took a position inside the house, and 

 having fastened up a lantern to see to shoot by, 

 he watched through a small window ; the panther 

 soon returned, and was at once shot dead. 



On another occasion at Hunsur, two panthers 

 got in amongst a large flock of sheep, shut up in 

 a yard of the old Government tannery, and killed 

 all but one of them. 



Panthers are very fond of sheep, goats, and 

 dogs, and a deadly method of shooting them is 

 to picket a kid in front, and to conceal oneself in 

 a thicket in the evening, and wait. If a panther 

 should hear the bleating of the kid, it will most 

 likely come to investigate, though, of course, if 

 it should chance to approach from the wrong 

 direction, and thus get the wind of the sportsman, 

 it will not put in an appearance. 



I shot a very large one in this way only some 

 four miles from my house in the large town of 

 Mysore. Overlooking that town is a high, rocky 

 hill, several miles in length, known as " Chamundi " 

 from the goddess of that name. One day, a member 

 of the Mysore royal family told me that there was 

 a large panther inhabiting the rocks of a certain 

 part of the hill, and he offered to show me the 

 place, adding that he had already tried for him 

 without success. This panther used to kill cattle 

 freely, and was evidently a fine specimen. The 

 native gentleman drove me out along the road till 

 we were under the pile of rocks referred to, where 



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