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COLONEL ROOSEVELT A REMARKABLE HUNTER. 
thicket, and thence dash out upon any moving object that may 
approach his retreat. ' 
‘Sometimes the rhinoceros will commence a series of most 
extraordinary antics, and seeming to have a spite against some 
particular bush, will rip it with his horn, trample it with his feet, 
LIIINOCEROS ATTACKING A HORSE. 
roaring and grunting all the while, and will never cease until he 
has cut it into shreds and levelled it to the ground. He will also 
push the point of his horn into the earth, and career along, ploughing 
up the ground as if a furrow had been cut by some agricultural 
implement. In such case it seems that the animal is not laboring 
