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Show Fight With a Leopard. A striking illustration of British courage and dogged persistence was given by an officer in India, named Ap-cher, Ap-cher, in a fight with a leopard. He was going round a rock, following the beast, which he had wounded, when the leopard, meeting the hunter, dashed dash-ed at him. Apcher jumped one side and fired. The shot only staggered the leopard. The man started to run, but before he could turn round the beast was almost upon him. He struck the animal with the gun as it was in the act of striking him and so warded off the blow from his head. But the beast's claws of one paw cut his right cheek, and the other paw knocked the gun out of the officer's hands. With all his strength the man dashed his right hand into the beast's mouth and with the left grasped him around the throat. The leopard caught him near the elbow and bit through the forearm. fore-arm. Exerting all his strength, Apcher threw the leopard Into a rift between the rocks and on its back. With his knee on its chest, one hand in its mouth, the other grasping its throat, he held the struggling animal. His native boy came up with a double barreled gun. "Put it in the leopard's mouth and fire, " Baid Apcher. The boy obeyed, pulled both triggers and killed the beast, fortunately without with-out hitting the hand. The dogged officer's offi-cer's left hand and arm were much in jured ; every finger of the right hand was lacerated, the hand bitten through and the forearm torn in five places. Youth's Companion. |