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It the course of the latest Instalment of the narrative of his experience Al Rocarelt
In the open woods which marked the border between has barren plains and the forested valley of the A, Kermit and I shot water
cape. But Judd, who mored by Hồn, leopard, or chino, svidentl beld this snake in rompeof, and yelled to me get ont of the way Accordingly. I jumped back a few foot, and the cake came over the ground where I had stood ita evil genius than made it half for s risment and raise its host to a height of perhaps 37t, and I killed it by a shot through the nước
bezala and impallat. The water-buck is a stately 12 Apuges up about 30. Ang Urters were much
and did not at all like my touching it and taking it an first by the tail and then by the head It was only 12% Jong, weighing about 4016. To tied it to lag stick and sent is in by two porters, pr Another day we bost for lions, but without
antelope, with long, coarse, grey hair and the carriage of the head and neck the male alone carries burns. We found them rally in Parties of fen ora dosen, both of bulla and but sometimes a party of cows would go or three or four balla might be found We rode to a spot a few miles of, together. In spite of its name where we were joined by three Book on find it much given to going in the water, Thiey were big, nnstanding men, looking just although it would cross the river fearlessly sa Boer farmers ought to look who had been whenever it desired; it was, however, always through a war and had ever, since led the ad. found not we far from water. It liked theropterous life of frontier farmers in wild woods, and did not go many toiles from the regions. They were accompanied by a pack of streams, yet we frequently saw it on the open big rough looking dogs, but were en foot, plains a mile or two from trees, feeling in the walking with long and easy stridos. The doga vicinity of the sobre and the hastebeth T looked a songh-and-ready int, but on this part- was, however, usually quite early in the morn- ticular morning showed themselves of its uss
at any rate, they put up nothing
ing
LEOPARD'S HARD FIGHT. But Kermit had a bit of deserved good luck. While the maiz body of us want down the river
he and McMillan, with a few natives, beat up aside ravine, down the middle of which ran of brash. In one of those they put up leonard. the wasal dry watercourse, fringed with patolos and say it slinking forward ahead of them it, and came to the conclusion that it was in g through the bushes. Then they lost sight of large thicket Bo Korzut went on one side of
or quits late in the afternoon. In the heat of the day it clearly preferred to be in the forest, along the streem a edge, or in the bush clad, zavaries, data
The impalla are found in exactly the same kind of
as the water-bask, and offers ecuntry associate will them. To my mind they are among the most beautiful of all sutelope. They are about the size of a white-tailed deer, they beautiful, annlated horns malding a single spiral, and their coat is like satin with its cor trasting shades of red and white. They have the most graceful movements of any animal find McMillan on the other, and the inters know, and it is extraordinary to see a herd start #pproached to try and get the leopard out. Of off when frightened, making bounds clear over como, none of the beater had gans; their fans. large-sized tusher Jenally single old back ton was merely to make a disturbance and rouse will be found with a large company of does and the game, and they were cautioned on no account fawns; the other bucks go singly or in small to get into danger. But the leopard did not wait parties. It was in the middle of May, and we to be driven. Without any warning, ont he came Raw fawns of all ages. When in the open, Him when he was but az yards off with a ballet and charged straight at Kortnit who stopped where, like the waterbuck, it often went in the in the fore part of the body; the Leopard morning and evening, the impalla was very shy, tarned, and as he galloped back Karmit hut him but I did not find it particularly so among the woods. In connection with shooting two of the gain,crippling him in the hips. The wounds fimpalis, theres are. Little incidents which are, Bght out of any animal less plucky and avage were fatal, and they would have knocked the
than the leopard; bat not even in Afrles is there a boast of more malinoling courage than this spotted cat.
perhaps, worthy of misation,
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In one case I had just killed a water-back cow, hitting it at a considerable distance and by a lucky durs, after a good deal of bad shooting We started the porters in with the water-buck
of the charge and the way in which it was The beaters were mten excited by the sight stopped, and they pressed jubilantly forward top locally one of them, who was on it, and out come the wounded leopard at him. MoMillan side of the thicket, whan too near It was badly crippled, or it would have got the
and then reda west through an open country, dotted here and there with trees and with occasional m-hills. In a few minutes we saw an impalla huck, and I crept up behind an i hill and obtained a shot at about two hundron and fifty yards. The buck dropped, and as I beater at once; as it was, it was slowly over- *hen McMillan, standing on an ant-heap, shot
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was putting in another cartridge I said to Juda ang hanges through fan hear number of howlers submitted in connectionJOHN J. M. BULT, that I didn't like to sue, an animal drop it again. Yet, in spite of having this thing with a prize competition, arranged by tho
like that, so instantaneonely, as there was
went through the long geass into the thicket. There was a pause, and the wounded bevter was removed to a place of safety, while a mansenger was sent on to us to bring up the Boer dogs But while they were waiting, the leopard, on its own initiative, brought matters ton crisis, for out it came again straight at Kermit, and this time it dropped dead to Kermit's bullet, Na animal could have shown a more fearless and resoluto text par. It was an old female, but small, its weight being a little short of seventy
always the possibility that it might only be bullet in it, it ran down the boater and seas cressed, and that if an animal so hart got up, it him, worrying him with tooth and claws, but it always wentelt exactly as if unhurt. When we was weak because of its wounds, and the raised our eyes again to look for the impalla, Ithilan, fred into the boost again; and back 16 savage' wrenched himself free, while powerlal had vanished, I was sure that we could never ses it again, and Judd felt much the same was but we walked in the direction toward which it. head had been pointed, and Judil ascended an ant-hill to scan the surrounding country with his glasses. He did so, and after 2 minute ro marked that he could not see the wounded in palls, when a mdden movement caused him to book down, and there it was lying at his very foot, on the side of the ant hill, unable to rise had been waing a sharp-pointed bullet in the Springfield, and this makes a big hole. The bullet had geze too far back, penetrating the hips. I should not have wondered at Alf the animal had failed to get up, but I did not understand why, if recovered enough from the shock to be able to get up at all, it is not con- tinued to travel, instead of falling, after going one hundred yards, prendon
minds. The smallest female cougar eran killed was heavier than this, and one very big male cougar which I Lilled in Colorado w board of any congas which displayed anything three times the weight, Yet I have never like the spirit and ferocity of this little leopard, or which any way approached it as a danger our fox It was sent back to camp in company with the wounded beater, after the wounds of the latter had been dressed they were not serious, and he was spoedily as well as ever.
8 COTLAND'S NATIONAL EMILEM
THE THISTLE AND ITS HISTORY
on
a
Indeed, Ism inclined to think that a deer or prong-buck, hit in the same fashion, would have gone of, and would have given long chass before being prertaken. Judging from what others have said, I have no doubt that African game is very tough, and succumbe less esaily to wounds than is the case with animal of the norther temperate zoney but in my own limited experience I these times aw African antelopes succumb to rounds
Cursed is the ground for thy aske-thorns quicker than the average northern animal niso and thistles shall it bring forth to the s would have Baccutobed to the wound. One was runs the record of the primeval curse in the this impalia: Another was the con eland world's most ancient history of human'depravity. fret shot, her hind leg was broken high up, By a strange caprice of change, says, a writer in and the wound, though crippling, was not sach the Scotsman, the thistle, which was originally a would have prevented. moosa de wapiti the symbol of man's first disobedience and the from hobbing on three legs, yet instrument of his punishment, has become the in spite of hard
truggles
the old adopted and cherished emblem of the Scottish was wholly unable to regain her foot, The nation. Its choice for the unexpected honour impalis, thus chot, by the way, although in the seems to have bran mggested in the reign of the condition and the cont of glossy bonity, we third James, by the still older national motto, infested by ticks; around the horns the horrid In Defence how mayor older who can tell? little insects were clustered in thick masses for Throne in 1950; and thus the prickly weed which That prince, a small boy of eight, came to the a space of a diameter of some inches. It was to me marvellous that they had not set up is the honoured badge of Scotland has been en fiammatica or paused great sores, for tasy were nobled for now four and a half centuries. The so thick that at a distance of a few fost the French lily and the English rose are probably of gave the appearance of there being some hig earlier date. It would be difficult if the inten gland or bare place at the root of each hormotion of our forefathers was to illustrate their The other impalla back also showed an au motto with an appropriate flowering plant to expected softness, snocumbing to on fod or fall upon one more to the purpose than which I do not believe would have given me the thery thistle. alther a white-tested or a black-tailed deep of our rough ancestors. And who knows what Once adopted, it readily received the approval Ind been vainly endeavouring to get, a water
back bull, and as the day was growing hot I subtle influence it may have had in directing was riding hotieward, scanning the edge of the end moulding the Scottish character, such na plain, where it merged into the trees, that ex- it hardy, zobust, self-reliant if wanting the tended out from the steep bank that hemmed grace of the lily and the graciousness of the in one side of the river bottom. From time rose? It presently appeared on the Scottish to time we would see an impalls or a water coinage, to remain there through four Stuart bnek making its way from the plain back to reigns down to the time of the Union. It was the river botten, to spend the day in the shade. employed in the literators in 1503 (in what is One of these I stalked, and after a good deal perhaps the best allegorical peers in any langu. of long-range shouting broke a hind leg high ago) to prosent the royalty of Boolland in up. It got out of sight, and we rode along the alliance with the red-and-white Rose of England. edge of the steep descent, which led down It was wronght into the decoration of the into the river bottom proper. In the bottom Boottish royal insignis, forming a floral border there were large, open, grassy places while to the royal banner; and, after its admission the trees made a thick fringe along the river of the best known of all our Lyon Kings. Sir into the herald's ofco, in 1642, Jaring the reign. course, We had given u the impallo, પાવ farned out toward the plain when one of my David Lindsay of the Mount, it was fully and gun-bearers whistled to, and aid he had inoradioably established in the higher bfe of won the wounded stiral cross the bottom and the nation, on the last day of the year 1703, by go into the fringe of frees bounding a deep pool 1stest development of which was made in 1827, the institution of an Order of Knighthood, the
in which we know there were both hippos and when the number of its members was increased
crocodiles. We were off our horses at out,
and leaving them at the top, Borambled down from twelve to sixteen.
the descent, and crossed the bottom to the spot indiosted. The impalls had lain down as soon
THE NATIONAL MOTTO,
Shortly after the creation of the
nighta
as if reached cover, and as we entered the fringe The Vision of Allan Ramsay, where
of wood I caught a glimpse of it getting PP jadaminking, out of fify rails. stopped ogala, standing sight on the brink of the pool, so cicas that when I shot it it fell over into the waters en planl
ADVENTURE WITH A BRAKE
When, after arranging for this impala to be carried back to the farm, we returned to where
the Thistle it again got into our native poetry, figures almost obtrusively with the new impune levemut. The amendments not yet amended, national motto, “Nəm at algaificant change of fence it may marked in passing, was made in the reign of Queen Anno at the time of the fall institution the Order, but Ramsay either ignored or WAS
Burnsă devotion to
our horses had been left, the boys told no with ignorant of the charikol emblem is
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The earth is an obsolete spheroi Lord Raleigh was the first man to see the Invisible Armedsende verona
In India a man out of cask may not marry a woman out of another enak.
Nelson was killed by midget mau and buried in the cockpit of St. Paul's Cathedral, Orkino was a courageous man. He wanted to marry Olivia d
George Eliot left a wife and ohildren to mourn his genii.
The capital of Bussis is St. Petersburg on the Duma
Thomas Becket used to wash the feet of leopards.
Henry I. died of eating palfroys, Romulus, obtained the first citizens for Bome by opening oʻlunatic asylum,
The Khine is boarded by wooden mountains. Gender shows whether a man is mescolîne, feminine, or neuter Men W
Hamlat showed his affectionnte character when he didn't take the king's life before ho ala:
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Geometry teaches us how to bisex angels, ›Parallel linen are the same distance, all tho way and do not meet unless you bend them.** To make a barometer, take a long glass tube closed at one end, insert » cork in the other, and fill with mercury,
Horse-power is the distance ons horse can carry a pound of water in an hour.
If the air containg more than 560 per cent. of carbolic acid it is very injurions to health.
Gravitation is that which if there were none, we should all fly away,
A Renegade is a man who kills a king. The Prees to day is the month-organ of the people.
A vacuum is a large empty space where the Pope lives
A deacon is the lowest kind of Christian, The river provides excellent sport for fishermen and
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much excitement that there was a huge anaku near by and sure enough, a fowald, even more pronounced than was Chanoor & to eoiled op in the long grass per a email to the dilay, as his charateristic letter to the Ta python ould not seo it disanery, guidwife of Wauchope in the spring of 1767 wed, sing a solid bullet T-ptat sussed the heck by boat to the demanded on the fo bone, the bullet going through the body about
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