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Mac. " I declare it has made me feel quite queer, 

 and given me an all-overishness I shall not get over 

 for a week." 



" 1 wish we had brought some beer with us," said 



W , with something very nearly approaching to a 



sigh, " for I want a draught to wash my throat after 

 the tainted air I have been inhaling, which has half 

 suffocated me. Come, Chineah, produce your master's 

 brandy-flask, and let us have a little refreshment after 

 our exertions." 



" Poor little woman," exclaimed Jock, " look, here 

 is a long lock of her hair attached to a piece of scalp, 

 that I found sticking to my boot as I came out, — 

 I shall keep it as a souvenir." 



" Well," said I, " the only souvenir that I should 

 care to keep, to remind me of this day's scene, would 

 be the skldl of the man-eater ; and if my right-hand 

 has not forgotten its cunning, and my grooved bore 

 does not fail me — which, all praise to the Bishop 

 of Bond Street and Westley Eichards, it never has 

 done yet — that trophy shall yet adorn my domicile, 

 for I do not intend to leave a &tone unturned until I 

 bag the brute. My gang shall sleep at Botta Sing- 

 arum to-night, so as to be ready for work at dawn 

 to-morrow ; and I vote we ask for volunteers among 

 the detachment, and allow the steadiest men to take 

 their muskets with them, so as to defend the line of 

 beaters. It must, however, be an understood thing 

 that no one is to fire a shot at any other game until 



