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forty yards of the patch, and nothing moved, I signalled 
to W-- and we went in. Hardly had we advanced 
ten steps wdien I saw a long cat-like form crouching off 
through the thin tail of the bush some seventy yards 
ahead. It seemed small for a lion, but I put in both 
barrels of the Paradox, Elmi, with my second gun, 
dashing right past me. This was utterly wrong on his 
‘‘WHILE I HELD AN EMPTY GUN ” (LEOPARD). 
part, and a breach of all rules. At that moment, while 
I held an empty gun, a truly magnificent leopard leaped 
from the bush within thirty yards, and I was left 
absolutely helpless, to admire her infinite grace as she 
silently bounded past my front. 
What an unending catastrophe was that business of 
Babel! Had we only understood at the beginning, 
amid the polyglot jumble of tongues, that it was two 
leopards we were after, instead of one lion, as we had 
gathered, then surely both would not have escaped— 
