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the brute always keeping them close down, 

 which gave him a most cruel, diabolical 

 expression, so that I felt I could pick him 

 out of a thousand. 



" Taking my father's long gun, also his 

 talwar and long hunting knife, I sallied 

 out one evening when I thought the tiger 

 would be thinking of issuing forth to look 

 out for his supper. I walked into the 

 very dense part of the jungle where the 

 trees were so thick that they obscured the 

 daylight ; here the place was one mass of 

 bones, and, as I glanced at them in 

 passing, one or two appeared wonderfully 

 like human bones, but I confess my nerves 

 were in too excited a state, to enable me 

 to observe them as accurately as I could 

 have wished. 



" I now proceeded most cautiously, 



knowing the slightest indiscretion on my 



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