BULLET AND SHOT 



loading rifle carrying a belted ball, while his friend 

 was armed with a double 1 2-bore rifle. 



The elephant became very uneasy before W. had 

 got in as close as he wished to do, and he had to 

 fire hurriedly with the '577 ; the single 6-bore being 

 behind, and not within reach at the time. Away 

 went the elephant, with W., who had given him 

 both barrels, in hot pursuit, reloading as he ran. 

 As soon as he got fresh cartridges in, he fired one 

 barrel behind the ear, but without effect ; and then, 

 as a last chance, he directed the other bullet at 

 the elephant's leg. He was just putting in fresh 

 cartridges after this shot, when he heard the short, 

 sharp war-trumpet of the tusker, and saw the 

 latter, with trunk coiled up and ears cocked, 

 charging straight back at the cloud of smoke. 

 There was no big tree behind which to step, so W. 

 took a couple of strides to one side behind a sapling, 

 and gave the elephant the contents of one barrel 

 in the face, and a bullet from the other in the ear, 

 as the tusker brushed past him so close that W. 

 said he could have struck him. Most fortunately, 

 the enraged brute, failing to see W., went on, 

 "going for," and severely punishing, a bamboo 

 clump, behind which his friend and the men, who 

 had, however, escaped from it long before the tusker 

 got there, had been hiding. 



W. then followed the elephant up, and he found 

 that the leg shot had deprived him of all travelling 

 power, for after punishing the bamboo clump, he 

 struck off at an angle, and came to a halt in a 

 thicket. W. then discovered that the caps for his 



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