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whole time intently at the carcass and then suddenly with no warning , without my seeing a movement of his approach , there was the leopard standing upright a few yards from me , staring straight into my eyes .
whole time intently at the carcass and then suddenly with no warning , without my seeing a movement of his approach , there was the leopard standing upright a few yards from me , staring straight into my eyes .
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Just after dawn next morning , we went out with Engelbrecht in order to give Hodson a chance to shoot a deer or possibly a bear or leopard . We were walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a ...
Just after dawn next morning , we went out with Engelbrecht in order to give Hodson a chance to shoot a deer or possibly a bear or leopard . We were walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a ...
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wounded leopard was growling so that we knew it was still alive . Engelbrecht then cut down a sapling and said that he would climb on to the boulder and poke the leopard out with the sapling so that I could get a shot at it .
wounded leopard was growling so that we knew it was still alive . Engelbrecht then cut down a sapling and said that he would climb on to the boulder and poke the leopard out with the sapling so that I could get a shot at it .
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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