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Page 45
The body lay in the ravine at one end of a narrow terraced field , at the other end
of which , some forty yards away , was a leafless and stunted walnut tree in
whose branches a hayrick had been built , some four feet from the ground and
about ...
The body lay in the ravine at one end of a narrow terraced field , at the other end
of which , some forty yards away , was a leafless and stunted walnut tree in
whose branches a hayrick had been built , some four feet from the ground and
about ...
Page 48
first big drops of a deluge began to fall , I heard a stone roll into the ravine , and a
minute later the loose straw on the ground below me was being scratched up .
The leopard had arrived ; and while I sat in torrential rain with the icecold wind ...
first big drops of a deluge began to fall , I heard a stone roll into the ravine , and a
minute later the loose straw on the ground below me was being scratched up .
The leopard had arrived ; and while I sat in torrential rain with the icecold wind ...
Page 131
I picked up the tracks of the leopard where he returned to the road after killing the
goat , and followed them through Golabrai and for a mile further on , to where a
deep ravine crosses the road , up which he had gone . The distance the leopard
...
I picked up the tracks of the leopard where he returned to the road after killing the
goat , and followed them through Golabrai and for a mile further on , to where a
deep ravine crosses the road , up which he had gone . The distance the leopard
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 May 2007 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Romance / Time Travel |
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