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crawled into my tent and awoke me, saying that a leopard 
was eating the goat. I jumped up and crept to the fence, 
which was but a few feet off. I peered through the loop- 
hole, and there, sure enough, was the dim form of a leopard 
crouching over the goat. I fired at what I imagined 
would be his head, and he rolled over on his side without 
a sigh. We hauled him inside the zareba, and I found I 
had put the bullet through his eye, so that when skinned 
no bullet-hole could be seen anywhere. The skull was, 
smashed into a thousand pieces. This leopard measured 
5 feet before skinning, and 6 feet 4 inches when pegged 
out. 
