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come down after all. How wonderful it 

 is that every animal thinks he is so much 

 more knowing than another ! and the 

 human species are not exempt from this 

 infatuation. 



I never recollect a night that passed so 

 wearily, and I was glad when I saw the 

 first streak of day appearing. The dawn 

 is very short, as I have before mentioned, 

 and, in ten minutes more, it was broad 

 daylight. I had observed that my enemy 

 had for some time been very uneasy ; and 

 now he got up, and, with head and tail 

 hanging low, he skulked off across the 

 road, disappearing in the thickest part of 

 the jungle. Though I could not see him, 

 I was able to track his course, by the bushes 

 shaking as he passed along, a sadder and, 

 it is to be hoped, a wiser tiger than he 

 was when he left his family residence ! 



