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Page 87
As I reached this open ground I felt I was being followed , and , determined to
exploit the situation , I left the track and , taking two long steps over soft and
spongy ground , lay down behind the rock , with only one eye showing in the
direction of ...
As I reached this open ground I felt I was being followed , and , determined to
exploit the situation , I left the track and , taking two long steps over soft and
spongy ground , lay down behind the rock , with only one eye showing in the
direction of ...
Page 103
From the village , a rough goat track ran straight up the hill to the edge of the
broken ground , where it turned left , and after running across the face of the hill
for a hundred yards carried on round the shoulder of the mountain . The track
where it ...
From the village , a rough goat track ran straight up the hill to the edge of the
broken ground , where it turned left , and after running across the face of the hill
for a hundred yards carried on round the shoulder of the mountain . The track
where it ...
Page 105
This goat , however , had ideas of its own , and no sooner had the man removed
the rope from its neck , than it turned and ran up the track . It was too good a
calling goat to abandon — it had attracted the leopard once , and might do so
again .
This goat , however , had ideas of its own , and no sooner had the man removed
the rope from its neck , than it turned and ran up the track . It was too good a
calling goat to abandon — it had attracted the leopard once , and might do so
again .
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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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