Twenty Minutes After People Began To Drop In Cautiously And
Inquire If Anything Was The Matter, And I Civilly Asked Them To Go
And Ask The Leopard In The Bush, But They Firmly Refused.
We found
the dog had got her shoulder slit open as if by a blow from a
cutlass, and
The leopard had evidently seized the dog by the scruff
of her neck, but owing to the loose folds of skin no bones were
broken and she got round all right after much ointment from me,
which she paid me for with several bites. Do not mistake this for a
sporting adventure. I no more thought it was a leopard than that it
was a lotus when I joined the fight. My other leopard was also
after a dog. Leopards always come after dogs, because once upon a
time the leopard and the dog were great friends, and the leopard
went out one day and left her whelps in charge of the dog, and the
dog went out flirting, and a snake came and killed the whelps, so
there is ill-feeling to this day between the two. For the benefit
of sporting readers whose interest may have been excited by the
mention of big game, I may remark that the largest leopard skin I
ever measured myself was, tail included, 9 feet 7 inches. It was a
dried skin, and every man who saw it said, "It was the largest skin
he had ever seen, except one that he had seen somewhere else."
The largest crocodile I ever measured was 22 feet 3 inches, the
largest gorilla 5 feet 7 inches.
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