THE CHEETAH, OE HUNTING LEOPARD. 



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history of his reign « we read that he astonished his guests by his 

 method of bringing down the deer: " The cheetahs, or hunting 



Hunting with the Leopard, from a stamp of Jean Stradan (sixteenth century). 



leopards of the Bast, are mounted on horseback behind their keepers, 



these animals," as the Emperor says, " know how to ride." In this 



' " History of Frederick the Second," by T. L. Kington. 



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