XXVIII 
TWO LEOPARD STORIES 
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fire ere he could reach the door of the tent, and 
feeling that everything was secure, had gone peace¬ 
fully to sleep. I was awakened, some hours later, 
by the yell of a frightened human being and the 
snarling growls of a leopard. Instinctively seizing 
my magazine pistol, which I always keep under my 
pillow, I jumped out of bed to find a leopard and my 
bull terrier in the throes of a fierce encounter, the 
faithful watchman having long since made himself 
scarce. Now, Brandy was endowed with all the 
pluck and fighting instinct of his breed, besides 
being fully trained to take care of himself, and at 
the very outset of the combat had, with his usual 
tactics and extreme quickness, managed to fasten 
his teeth into the side of the leopard’s neck. There 
he hung on like grim death, his own neck being 
