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time a brace of bullets sped their way, and he rolled 

 over. Quickly seizing their second guns, another 

 volley was fired, and the tigers further charging 

 was stopped for ever. 



"That's a settler," -said Mackenzie, as the two 

 instinctively reloaded before going up to the dead 

 foe. 



" Yes, rather a neat job altogether," was Norman's 

 reply, as he drove home a bullet, and then shouted 

 to Eugonauth that the game was bagged. 



" Sharp, short, and decidedly decisive," observed 

 Hawkes, as he joined them over the body of the 

 striped beauty, now so still, but within so brief a, 

 space exulting in the unequalled combination of 

 power and agility belonging to its kind. "You 

 ' slacked his limbs in death ' pretty sharply. All I 

 could see after he appeared out of the bushes, was a 

 yellow streak, then a slight dance, a roll over, and 

 muteness succeeded his roaring. He was straight 

 between myself and you, so that I couldn't have 

 fired, even if I had had time." 



" Ah ! " said Mackenzie. " If we had only been 

 on the ground yesterday, instead of being perched 

 in those confounded trees, we should have given a 

 better account of the family party. I wonder if this 

 is one of yesterday's ? It's odd, his returning to the 

 same place." 



