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fire ere he could reach the door of the tent, and 

 feeling that everything was secure, had gone peace- 

 fully to sleep. I was awakened, some hours later, 

 by the yell of a frightened human being and the 

 snarling growls of a leopard. Instinctively seizing 

 my magazine pistol, which I always keep under my 

 pillow, I jumped out of bed to find a leopard and my 



NYASALAND AdRI-HORTlCULTURAL ASSOQOTN 



Hon-Pros.dont 



A LFRED SHARPE Es<i. c 



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is to certify that 



bull terrier in the throes of a fierce encounter, the 

 faithful watchman having long since made himself 

 scarce. Now, Brandy was endowed with all the 

 pluck and fighting instinct of his breed, besides 

 being fully trained to take care of himself, and at 

 the very outset of the combat had, with his usual 

 tactics and extreme quickness, managed to fasten 

 his teeth into the side of the leopard's neck. There 

 he hung^ on like grim death, his own neck being 



