The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-02-08

once came right in sig OF the leopards the old
one and two Cubs almost as large as she was,
basking in the sun in an open space in the
glade.
| don't think she saw me, as from where l
stood was completely hidden in dense foliage,
but she stared hard in my direction. half-rising
TO her feet, the tip of her tail twitcbing from
side to SIDE or, more correctly speaking. beating
the ground with about FIVE inches of the end
of it.
1t was as pretty sight as I had ever seen.
these beautiful cats, but had no time for such
thoughts. One of the cubs attempted to play
with the bobbing tail, and this seemed to irri-
tate her, for she turned and gave the Offend
ing youngster a tap with her paw that sent him
sprawling. In doing she gave me a fine
| broadside, and | fred, dropping her at once,
though she scrambled to her fore-feet in an in
slant.
/ could see that her hind parts were para
lyzed she was shot through the spine. and as
she turned to ghawfhe wound ! quickly got
another cartridge ard hit her through the
neck. By this tinethe two cubs had recovered
from their SURPRISE and ] gave one of them
a bullet in the chest,lthe other turning tail and
scsmperng off ipto the bush with Snap (who
had got loose) at his heels. while | stepped into
the open and let the one had wounded have
another bail, catching him in the orfce OF the
ear, and killing Him Instantly.
AS | approached them the old one rolled
over, and j was about to fire at her again when
! noticed that hes eye was already glazed and
it would snly be wasting ammunition. After
a bnsty glance OF admiration | left them as
they lay and hurried after the yelpng terrier,
who. from the sound. appeared to have come to
a halt, though could hear no snarling.
pushed on into the open veldt just in time
to sec the two max iiig across for the timber on
the other side OF the bend in the river. ] was
beginning to fselYa bit winded, and was not
sorry when further angry yelps and growing 9
showed that the cub had again been brought to
bay. Getting up quicky y as possible, found
that the dog had been having rough time
of it,
He was scored badly down the side, and in
stead of being white terrier was a ghastly
red one, though for the time being it did not
appear to Inconvenience him much. He WAS
vigorously barking and jumping around a lot
Of leose bowl lders among which the leopard had
evidently taken refuge. could not, however,
induce him TO 90 in.
began to fear | should have to give him
up. but got together a lot of the driest herbage
] could find, and making = couple of squiss by
extracting the powder from two cartridges, l
went to work to try to make him bolt, as his
cover was not very large. Cutting as long a
stick AS | could find. | tsok q page out Of ny
pock ct diary and rolled the squibs in it, bind
ing them To tho thin end of the stick, wi ich
bsHdaeed thickly around with dry grass and
leaves fer yard or more, and then pushed it
in where the leopard had entered. and igRited
it we'll all around. also heaping more dry stuff
about the opening so as to make as much
smother as possible
The smoke soon began to escape from the
crevicss, thoneb the leopard did not appear to
take any notice OF 1t; but as the fuses
began TO fizz and sputter, it was more than he
| could stand and out he dashed, almost upsetting
me in his rush. l picked up my carsine and
fred at him just as he disappearing into
the cover. / distinctly heard the pat of the
bullet, and was about to follow, when / saw
that the poor dog demanded my attention. SO
/ picked him up
The scratches were ugly ones and could see
| that If did not attend to them at once might
lose him. ! therefore carried him back to
camp and washed, stitched, and dressed his
| wounds.
/ made up my mind to leave the cub had
! wounded until the morrow. l tracked him up
next day and found him dead about a quarter
| of u mile from where fired at him. my lucky
shot having gone through his heart.-The
| World.