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Page 125
Having accomplished all this without having made any sound , I sat still ; my field
of vision was confined to the glade and to the jungle immediately beyond it . After
I had been sitting for an hour , a pair of bronzewing doves rose out of the jungle ...
Having accomplished all this without having made any sound , I sat still ; my field
of vision was confined to the glade and to the jungle immediately beyond it . After
I had been sitting for an hour , a pair of bronzewing doves rose out of the jungle ...
Page 126
without making any sound as far as I was aware ; when the time had come for
him to go to his kill he had stalked , for a distance of seventy yards over dry
leaves , the spot he had pin - pointed as the source of some suspicious sound .
without making any sound as far as I was aware ; when the time had come for
him to go to his kill he had stalked , for a distance of seventy yards over dry
leaves , the spot he had pin - pointed as the source of some suspicious sound .
Page 152
With thumb on the button of the torch and finger on trigger , I was prepared to
shoot in any direction in which I heard the slightest sound . The failure of the
leopard to appear was beginning to cause me uneasiness . Was it possible that
from ...
With thumb on the button of the torch and finger on trigger , I was prepared to
shoot in any direction in which I heard the slightest sound . The failure of the
leopard to appear was beginning to cause me uneasiness . Was it possible that
from ...
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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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