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The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon

CHAPTER V
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In a beautifully open piece of forest, upon good hard ground, these fellows were having a regular battle with the rogue.

He was charging them with the greatest fury, but he no sooner selected one man for his object than these active fellows diverted his rage by firing into his hind-quarters and yelling at him.
At this he would immediately turn and charge another man, when he would again be assailed as before.

When we arrived he immediately selected B., and came straight at him, but offered a beautiful shot in doing so, and B.dropped him dead.
The firing had disturbed a herd of elephants from the forest, and they had swum the large river in the neighbourhood, which was at that time so swollen that we could not cross it.

We, therefore, struck off to the edge of the forest, where the waters of the lake washed the roots of the trees, and from this point we had a fine view of the greater portion.
All the rogues that we had at first counted had retired to their several entrances in the forest, except the pair of desperadoes already mentioned--they knew no fear, and had not heeded the shots fired.

They were tempting baits, and we determined to get them if possible.


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