The Badminton Magazine 1896-10: Vol 3 Iss 15 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 44
us, was hidden from view. Beneath my perch was a drop of some forty yards on to a bare space at the foot of our hill, and the other rifles were similarly, though not quite so favourably, situated. The bare spot looked small enough, while beyond it the sea of forest was almost impenetrable to the… … at my stupidity and owning myself a duffer, at length I withdrew my strained eyeballs from the spot they had been piercing, and suddenly on the bare place immediately beneath me saw the tiger standing. I had time to take a deliberate, almost vertical, aim downwards, resting the rifle on a rock. As…
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