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The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon

CHAPTER XII
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Once more a general battery opened; and he was extinguished.

Five were killed; and if noise and smoke add to the fun, there was certainly plenty of it.

Wortley and my man Wallace now swam across the river and cut off the elephants' tails.
We returned to the horses, and moved to the 'Cave,' meeting with no farther incidents that day.
Dec.

4--We saw nothing but deer the whole of the day, and they were so wild that we could not get a shot.

It was therefore a blank.
Dec.


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