The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 141Atlantic Monthly Company, 1928 - American essays |
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My Annamite tracker had jumped to the left and I could see him kneeling and firing with my Savage .303 at the elephant's head . I shouted to him : ' Don't fire at her head ! She'll fall on me ! ' Finally the elephant slowly turned round ...
My Annamite tracker had jumped to the left and I could see him kneeling and firing with my Savage .303 at the elephant's head . I shouted to him : ' Don't fire at her head ! She'll fall on me ! ' Finally the elephant slowly turned round ...
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It be gone , ' said the marshman , lowering the gun , to my relief ; for its double barrels had been near my cheek , and they were rusty , thin as an egg- shell at the muzzle , and loaded with an assortment of broken screw - heads ...
It be gone , ' said the marshman , lowering the gun , to my relief ; for its double barrels had been near my cheek , and they were rusty , thin as an egg- shell at the muzzle , and loaded with an assortment of broken screw - heads ...
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I was musing in this idle manner , my thoughts slipping away as water , when I heard a sound somewhere behind me . It was a thin piercing whistle , the cry of an otter . Slowly I moved back my head , till only a part of my ...
I was musing in this idle manner , my thoughts slipping away as water , when I heard a sound somewhere behind me . It was a thin piercing whistle , the cry of an otter . Slowly I moved back my head , till only a part of my ...
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