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THE HUNTING LEOPARD. 
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almost touching the ground, until he g 
within a short distance of the deer, w'hO; ® 
though he sees him approach, appears so 
cinated that he seldom attempts to run 
The cheetah then makes a few surpris’”'; 
springs and seizes him by the neck. If 
deer are near each other, they often escape 
flight ; their number, I imagine, giving tb®’' 
confidence, and preventing their feeling 
force of that fascination which, in a siur^ 
deer, produces a sort of panic, and appe^',' 
to divest him of the power and even the 
nation to run away or to make resistance, 
is clear that they must always catch thei^i W 
stealth, or in the manner I have described, 
they are not so swift even as common deer- 
The same writer mentions his havin 
c/ 
several hunting-leopards, merely hooded 
tied up under a shed in the open street 
Ellickpoor. For the chase they are t» 
out in a cart, brought near a herd of 
