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jumped off and fired. It was the last cartridge 

 I had, and I did not give much consideration to 

 Mary, and fired close to her ear. The bull fell, 

 but Mary objected to this treatment, looked at 

 me reproachfully, and then ran away home, 

 leaving me to find my way back in the dark. 

 She was very much attached to Mihndu, the 

 syce, and myself, and I rarely had any difference 

 of opinion with her ; and, except on one occasion, 

 when her feet slipped on a sloping rock, and the 

 slide ended in a scramble at the bottom, she never 

 gave me a fall in all the years that I rode her. 



