TAKING ANTELOPE WITH CHEETA. 9 



the herd, he is obliged to circle away from it and is gene- 

 rally brought round in a horseshoe course of about two or 

 three hundred yards, and killed or lost not far from the cart. 

 The cheeta appears to throw the whole of his energy and 

 strength into the last few bounds, and if he does not succeed 

 in striking his prey, although he may have missed by less 

 than an inch, he will not go a step further, but sulkily retires 

 to the nearest bush looking the picture of feline disappoint- 



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'OH, GREAT KING, DON'T BE ANGRY.' 



ment. The keeper hastens up and crouching, salaams to him 

 saying, " Oh, Great King, don't be angry, you will kill the 

 next," all the time he is working round the fierce brute, who 

 does nothing but spit and growl at him ; suddenly he whips 

 the hood over the beast's eyes and it becomes as helpless as a 

 lamb ; then seizing him by the rope round his loins he is igno- 

 miniously bundled on to the cart amidst a string of abuse 



