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Page 49
Waiting a suitable length of time , I raised the rifle and covered the stone ,
intending to fire the moment it was again obscured ; but there is a limit to the time
a heavy rifle can be held to the shoulder , and when the limit had been reached I
...
Waiting a suitable length of time , I raised the rifle and covered the stone ,
intending to fire the moment it was again obscured ; but there is a limit to the time
a heavy rifle can be held to the shoulder , and when the limit had been reached I
...
Page 122
We were now quite satisfied that no animal bigger than a rat could approach the
kill and eat any portion of it without meeting death in one form or another , so
throwing off the safetycatches of the rifles , we returned to the village . Fifty yards
...
We were now quite satisfied that no animal bigger than a rat could approach the
kill and eat any portion of it without meeting death in one form or another , so
throwing off the safetycatches of the rifles , we returned to the village . Fifty yards
...
Page 123
When there was no longer sufficient light to shoot by , I put down my rifle , and a
little later Ibbotson returned his field - glasses to their case . One chance of killing
the leopard had gone , but there were still three chances left , so we were not ...
When there was no longer sufficient light to shoot by , I put down my rifle , and a
little later Ibbotson returned his field - glasses to their case . One chance of killing
the leopard had gone , but there were still three chances left , so we were not ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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