TAKING ANTELOPE WITH CHEETA. 
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the herd, he is obliged to circle away from it and is gene- 
rally brought round in a horseshoe course of about two or 
three hundred yards, and killed or lost not far from the cart. 
The cheeta appears to throw the whole of his energy and 
strength into the last few bounds, and if he does not succeed 
in striking his prey, although he may have missed by less 
than an inch, he will not go a step further, but sulkily retires 
to the nearest bush looking the picture of feline disappoint- 
OH, GREAT KING, DON'T BE ANGRV:* 
ment. The keeper hastens up and crouching, salaams to him 
saying, Oh, Great King, don't be angry, you will kill the 
next," all the time he is working round the fierce brute, who 
does nothing but spit and growl at him ; suddenly he whips 
the hood over the beast's eyes and it becomes as helpless as a 
lamb ; then seizing him by the rope round his loins he is igno- 
miniously bundled on to the cart amidst a string of abuse 
