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fled. squealing rage and pain. He
was not chased far. The conqueror
returned. grunting contempt, and
forthwith took charge of his new
Iharem.
A little later he discovered q
new bed of truffies, and showed
them TO his mates. Then he
grunted peacefully. and lay dowr
on one side.
Whenever a new lot of truffleS
was rooted up. Big Red gruntec
commands.
He insisted on at least half for
his ewn share, and got II.
Something like an diversified pie
had been doing in deeper part
of that slime pool.
II really was an animal, though
when now il moved slowly 10 the
shore on its huge. short piano legs
it looked more like some antedi-
luvian nightmare.
The rhinoceroS was 10 feet long
from snout to root OF tail, and
broader than he was high.
| Nowadays this one-tusker rhino
found only in the Sunderbunds anc
in the swampS of Assam, is threat
.ened with extinction. -
He resembles a wild boar
closely.
His flesh is pork.
AS is the case with boars, his
intelligence is dim.
Scientists say that the 1S-inch
terrible tusk which grows upward
from his snout. is really bristle
He is not given to hunting trou-
BILE. like Big Red, but once he finds
iit he puts his head down and
charges in exactly the same way
only with the complete abandon
of runaway tank car on a steep
grade.
The rhino smelled the wild boar
and his wives now-and did he
hate the scent of swine!
His little tail switched back and
forth like tiny whip.
His small eyes grew blood red.
His eyesight was poor. SO he
stood at Ihe waters edge squirting
this way and that.
In a minute he would charge
anyway, but he did like to glimpse
his target first -.
That was the inauspicious mo-
ment that Big Red, the snake
hunter, chose TO appear.
For one second then he stopped
and blinked, seeing for the first
time that rare and terrible crea-
ture. the rhino.
But Big Red could get bellicose
in the space of a few heart beats.
This thing looked something like
an elephant TO him-and the boar
knew he could kill. or terrify any
elephant so il would flee.
He did not happen 10 note that
this specimen had legs shorter
than any elephant-so short that
the soft rhino belly was practically
flush with the ground. and out OF
reach of a boar's tuskS -.
The rhino was exactly in the
mood 10 destroy few wild boars
SO at first sight of Big Red
paving and getting ready to
charge, the huge creature ducked
his ugly head so that the long
ltusk projected forward and a little
upward from its base 10 inches
above the coy ground.
The rhino actually had started
that Scrambling hurry of short
legs which began his own UNI
wicldy charge. before the wild
boar hit him.
Big Red, in order 10 accomplish
his piggish purpose had TO get un-
der that big head, get between
those short. bowed legs, and rip
upward with his own tusks in a
disemboweling stroke.
But that was impossible with a
rhino.
TRIED TO DODGE
At the last split second the wild
boar got some faint glimmering OF
this. and tried 10 dodge around
10 rip the low. bullying flank.
The rhino, however, swerved t.
meet him.
The long tusk caught Big Red
under the right foreleg. spearins
INTO him, though not fatally
An upward toss Of the ugly head