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or even overthrown her with little danger to him- 
self, but he was content with threats instead of 
proceeding at once to action; and so his funeral car 
was a cart with many bullocks, and round him sat 
all night a crowd of villagers, dividing his flesh and 
speaking of his prowess until, with the morning 
light, the vultures came from afar and fought for 
their share of the spoil, so that by noon only a grim 
skeleton remained on the plain. 
The bullet had drilled an oval hole in the centre 
of the forehead and penetrated the brain, for it was 
always the unexpected that happened when bullets 
were weakened by the methods employed in olden 
days to increase their velocity by a reduction of their 
weight. The horns measured 8 feet 4 inches along 
the curve, which, outside Assam and Burma, would 
be considered to be a good trophy. The herd of 
buffaloes appeared to break up soon after. Some of 
the cows probably wandered away to Nepal, and 
Mr. P. H. Clutterbuck caught a young heifer, which 
grew up with the domesticated buffaloes, and became 
so tame that she allowed the herdsman to handle 
her. To see her, still immature, overtopping all her 
companions around her gave an excellent idea of the 
height and bulk of the wild animal. She was offered 
to and refused by the London Zoological Society, 
and went later to adorn a Raja’s menagerie, where 
no doubt she proved a great attraction. The final 
scene of the extinction of the wild-buffalo in the 
United Provinces occurred shortly after, when the 
same sportsman met in the forest a bull that had 
perhaps returned to revisit the scenes of his youth, 
and promptly met his fate—perhaps a more kindly 
