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an. “and don’t Expose your life unnecessarily.” 
Clancy’s letter arrived later stating that my 
>ig game stories and pictures had aroused 
>ublic interest, especially the one dealing with 
ny encounter with the leopard. ‘The picture 
if those helpless natives expressing their grati- 
ude to our special correspondent for his heroic 
ction,” wrote Clancy, “went right to the hearts 
if the readers.” 
Clancy hinted delicately that I had exposed 
lyself unnecessarily to the infuriated leopard, 
le urged me not to cast myself in the tracks 
f fear-maddened elephants and tigers in future. 
would certainly be trampled to death if I 
id not put a curb upon my recklessness. He 
tated, however, as an afterthought, that if such 
n occurrence did happe nit would be the means 
f trebling the paper’s circulation. 
I replied that my life was at the disposal ol 
le paper I represented, and wound up by say- 
ig that I had no patience with the alleged big¬ 
ame hunters who slaughtered their quarry at 
mg range. I believed in looking into the eye 
f the beast I was about to kill. I showed 
lancy’s letter to Kopman. He merely nodded 
ke one whose stage-craft had aroused enthusi- 
5m in the breast of kings. 
“We vill now brepare for der great anaconda 
icture,” he said, huskily. Advancing to the 
lerandah edge he spoke to one of the coolies in 
,i undertone. 
; Five minutes later a couple of Tamils ap¬ 
peared carrying a small brown baby and an 
aormous coil of silk. Placing the silk on the 
round one of them blew into it with a pair 
f large bellows until it heaved and wobbled 
n the grass at every puff. It was fully fifty 
let long, and as it rose and swelled the flat 
bad and throat assumed gigantic proportions 
“Id vas big enough to swallow a bullock,” said 
i'opman, admiringly. 
I asked innocently whether it was supposed 
i represent an anaconda or a gas-main. The 
erman looked hurt as he handed me the gun 
hree coolies carried the inflated reptile toward 
I bread-fruit tree and twined its great length 
round the upper branches, while the head was 
lift hanging within three feet of the ground. 
[Another coolie carried the overfed Tamil 
liby and placed it underneath the wicked flat 
pad of the anaconda. The German surveyed 
e scene with the eye of a stage manager, then 
jjiapped out an order to the waiting crowd of 
itives. In a flash they began running round 
[id round the swinging head of the anaconda, 
j though paralyzed at sight of its glittering 
jes and tremendous girth. Suddenly the figure 
ji a young Tamil woman came running down 
e hill—the mother of the child, evidently— 
d dashed forward as though to drag her off- 
tring from the jaws of the monster. 
A dozen hands restrained her as she struggled 
snatch the baby from beneath the tree. At 
^signal from Kopman I sprang from the palm 
irub and fired into the reptile’s jaws. The 
1 dy seemed to writhe convulsively, then grew 
ijick as the head drooped and lay on the 
found. 
‘Stay dere!” roared the German to me, “und 
|ow der bioscope man to finish der picture.” 
The mother raised the child from beneath the 
Gd of the dangling anaconda and bore it away, 
t'mbling with joy. The bioscope operator 
nused the movements as they passed into the 
[n perspective of the hills beyond. It was a 
: endid picture. I posted it to Clancy, and 
•fed another fortnight in Ceylon before re¬ 
ining to London. The German charged me 
h rupees for the use of his animals, including 
?! anaconda. A cabman would have asked 
fire for the use of his horse. 
When I arrived in London there was no one 
i the station to greet me. I hastened to the 
: ce, and was met at the door by the office boy, 
'o eyed me coldly. Pushing him aside I 
i ered, and found Clancy sitting alone in his 
Dm. 
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“Was anything wrong?” 
.Wrong?” He turned in his chair and re- 
I'ded me with the eyes of a man who had not 
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