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Page 112
For ten minutes after the leopard had stopped drinking , and just as I was
beginning to hope that he had died at the spring , I heard him going up the hill on
the far side of the ravine , all sound ceasing when he regained the path which
carried ...
For ten minutes after the leopard had stopped drinking , and just as I was
beginning to hope that he had died at the spring , I heard him going up the hill on
the far side of the ravine , all sound ceasing when he regained the path which
carried ...
Page 131
Quite evidently the tiger had heard me when I was approaching or climbing the
tree , though I had done this in thin rubber shoes without making as far as I was
aware any sound , and when the time had come for him to go to his kill he had ...
Quite evidently the tiger had heard me when I was approaching or climbing the
tree , though I had done this in thin rubber shoes without making as far as I was
aware any sound , and when the time had come for him to go to his kill he had ...
Page 168
Heavy clouds had been gathering all the evening , and at 8 p . m . , when all the
village sounds - except the wailing of the woman - were hushed , a ... The woman
had now stopped wailing , and in all the world there appeared to be no sound .
Heavy clouds had been gathering all the evening , and at 8 p . m . , when all the
village sounds - except the wailing of the woman - were hushed , a ... The woman
had now stopped wailing , and in all the world there appeared to be no sound .
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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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