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The story was told to me by my father , who , as everyone knows , had never been heard to tell a lie . ' My father was a young man then , and I unborn , when an evil spirit , like the one that is now troubling this land , made its ...
The story was told to me by my father , who , as everyone knows , had never been heard to tell a lie . ' My father was a young man then , and I unborn , when an evil spirit , like the one that is now troubling this land , made its ...
Page 162
As we crossed the road near the Inspection Bungalow and started up the steep hill on the far side of it , my companion informed me we had a very long way to go , adding that it would not be safe for us to be out after dark , so I told ...
As we crossed the road near the Inspection Bungalow and started up the steep hill on the far side of it , my companion informed me we had a very long way to go , adding that it would not be safe for us to be out after dark , so I told ...
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and when I had picked him up and made him comfortable in his chair , he said : ' I have been talking with your lady sister , and when I told her I was a Garhwali , she told me who you were . I was a small boy when you shot the man ...
and when I had picked him up and made him comfortable in his chair , he said : ' I have been talking with your lady sister , and when I told her I was a Garhwali , she told me who you were . I was a small boy when you shot the man ...
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able Alaknanda animal appeared approached arrived asked bank blood body bridge bungalow called carried climb close crossed dark dead decided direction distance dogs door early eaten fear feet field fire fish five followed foot four Garhwal getting give goat gone grass ground half hand head heard hill hope human hundred yards Ibbotson jungle kill later leaving leopard light lived look lying man-eater miles minutes morning mountain never night object passed path pilgrims poison position possible pug marks ravine reached returned rifle river road rock Rudraprayag seen shelter shoot short shot showed side sight sitting sleep sound started steps taken tell tiger told took track trap tree turned village waiting walk watched wide woman
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| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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