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UNEQUALLY MATCHED. 
Another deer of this variety once molested one of the keepers. He 
had known the man for a very long time — ever since he had been in the 
gardens — and had always shown a liking for him, but this day he attacked 
him, though by the greatest of good fortune the man got between his 
horns instead of on them, otherwise he would have been dead before 
any one could have reached him. As it was, the deer managed to fell 
him, and trampled him savagely with his feet, breaking three ribs and 
The Bereaved Eland. 
the small bone of one leg, besides severely bruising him all over. The 
poor man was on the sick list for many months after this treatment, 
but he was grateful enough that his life had been spared. It so happened 
that the deer was in unfamiliar surroundings, and, being uncertain 
whether reinforcements might not appear from unexpected quarters, he 
was unable to give the man on the ground his undivided attention. 
