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comfortable snooze till the same hour on 

 the following evening. 



" Instead of tearing me to pieces 

 without delay, which I fully expected 

 would be my fate, he would stop every 

 now and then to look at his sides, and I 

 distinctly saw him stagger, so I had hit 

 him after all. He now began to growl 

 frightfully and bite his sides, but I was 

 only just able to see what was going on, 

 for he had put his heavy foot on my chest, 

 and I felt as if it must crush in my breast 

 bone, which is not a pleasant sensation. 

 He now, at last began to lick me prepar- 

 atory to making his supper, when all at 

 once I recollected my hunting knive, and, 

 gently disengaging it from my belt, I 

 seized it with both hands and thrust it 

 upwards into his chest with all the energy 

 of despair. All the previous roarings 



