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soko and seized ; he roared out, hut the soko giggled and grinned, 

 and left him as if he had done it in play. A child caught up by 

 a soko is often abused by being pinched and scratched, and let fall. 



" The soko kills the leopard occasionally, by seizing both paws 

 and biting them so as to disable them ; he then goes up a tree, 

 groans oyer his wounds, and sometimes recovers, while the leop- 

 ard dies : at other times both soko and leopard die. The lion 



