124 BIED SHOOTING, 



and put a ball, close to his whiskers, into the 

 bank behind him ; or, in other words, I 

 missed him. Thus disturbed, he came down 

 hill right towards me : I gave him the other 

 barrel, and shot him through the neck ; the 

 men thought that I had missed him again, 

 but he turned, leaving bloody traces of his 

 wound, by which we tracked him for a mile, 

 until we came to a large rock, and there we 

 heard our friend growling and groaning in 

 a cave formed by the rock, a rather ticklish 

 place to get at him. If we got on the rock, 

 we could not see into the cave ; and if we 

 went under, we were so much below him, as 

 to give him greatly the advantage in a 

 charge. 



A consultation followed, and it was 

 decided that Ossaroo should climb a tree to 

 reconnoitre, Bahadoor and I standing so as 

 to command the mouth of the cave without 

 getting under it. The reconnoitering party 

 soon began to make signs that he could' 

 shoot him from the tree ; but Bruin, suspect- 

 ing that all was not right, jiut out his 



