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hands, the gun going off in the fall, and then in an instant, and 

 with a terrible roar, the animal gave him a tremendous blow with 

 its immense open paw, frightfully lacerating the abdomen, and 



with a single blow laying bare part of the intestines. As he 

 sank, bleeding, to the ground, the monster seized tne gun, and 

 the poor hunter thought he would have his brains dashed out 

 with it. But the gorilla seemed to have looked upon tkis also as 



