FOR DEAR LIFE.

Evening Post, Issue 128, 1 June 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

FOR DEAR LIFE.

A thrilling story of an encounter with a leopard comes from Serajgunge, in India. Two young English gentlemen belonging to the locality went out to hunt a leopard that had been making its presence unpleasantly felt in the neighbouring villages. Neither was accustomed to hunting nor to the use of firearms, but both were full of pluck and eager to show their powers. They took up their their station on a patch of cleared ground, awaiting tho leopard that the beaters were chasing from his lair, when suddenly the brute leaped on one of them and caught him by the thigh, inflicting terrible inj uries. His companion, seeing his danger, tried to fire at the brute, but, unfortunately, the aafety-pin, with the use of which he was unacquainted, had locked the gun so that tho trigger would not move. He tried to beat the leopard off from his companion, but the enraged beast turned upon him, stripping his arm and literally crunching his hand. Two of the boaters came up and used their bamboos with such telling effect that the animal turned tail and returned to the jungle. The two Europeans were removed to Serajgunge, and it was found that the iirst mentioned was in such a critical state that he could not recover from his injuries. He died shortly afterwards.