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roar from the hunted tiger. Unscathed, he 

 bounded away in the direction of a narrow 

 watercourse which seamed the face 

 of the precipice, and the next instant 

 Maula Bux was confronted by an 

 angry tiger which appeared to have 

 arisen from the ground at his feet. 

 To the elephant, accustomed in wild 

 life to due deference even from tigers, 

 this was a startling occurrence ; but 

 the thought of flight did not pass 

 through his brain. Instantaneously, 

 almost mechanically, he had swung 

 out his fore-foot and felt the resistance 

 of a heavy body. The tiger fell back- 

 wards, and half slipping, half leaping, 

 reached the foot of the precipice and dis- 

 appeared in the heavy grass. From above it 

 was easy to follow the subsequent events. 

 Escape was impossible from the semicircle of 

 elephants and from the hail of rifle bullets, and 

 the tiger, fighting to the last, was soon over- 

 powered. 



From that day the elephant Maula Bux was 



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