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One particularly dark night we were startled by a tremendous commotion in this shed, but as this was before the man-eaters were killed, no one dared stir out to investigate the cause of the disturbance. I naturally thought that the intruder was one of the "demons," but all I could do was to fire several shots in the direction of the hut, hoping to frighten him away.
I feel awfully sorry for him, out there all alone and it's a magnificent ranch to say nothing of the fact that he must be worth a lot of money besides. It would be perfectly shameful if some San Francisco girl snapped him up and you know what they are. He belongs by right to us, and I for one shall see to it that none of those man-eaters in San Francisco gets him.
As mates they had pulled together so efficiently that the natives had started the interminable process of making a tradition concerning them. These were superb young individuals and not man-eaters, for which reason Hand-of-a-God had not been called out to deliver the natives; also on this account Skag had been interested from the beginning.
He took 'em all, till for shame's sake he withdrew from contesting. He goes to the tournaments just the same the crackshotmen wouldn't be without him but he doesn't enter for the trophies any more." "He is called the avenger of the people, Skag," Cadman put in, "because he goes out and gets the man-eaters; never sights for anything but the eye or the heart, and never misses."
She sat thus, alone, with eyes that glowed in the dark like a wild beast's, with distended nostrils, with spasmodically moving cheek-bones, and whispered wrathfully: "Just you wait... Watch out, you damned things I'll show you... You'll see yet... Ooh-ooh, you man-eaters..."
Perhaps these tricks of his were only practised for amusement; however that may be, Ulysses became as artful as his grandfather; he was both the bravest and the most cunning of men, but Ulysses never stole things, except once, as we shall hear, from the enemy in time of war. He showed his cunning in stratagems of war, and in many strange escapes from giants and man-eaters.
You see, sir, these sharks are badly designed. They have to roll their bellies over to snap you up, and in the meantime . . ." Ned Land had a way of pronouncing the word "snap" that sent chills down the spine. "Well, how about you, Conseil? What are your feelings about these man-eaters?" "Me?" Conseil said. "I'm afraid I must be frank with master." Good for you, I thought.
Well had the two man-eaters earned all this fame; they had devoured between them no less than twenty-eight Indian coolies, in addition to scores of unfortunate African natives of whom no official record was kept. When all the excitement had died down and there was no longer any dread of the man-eaters, work went on briskly, and the bridge over the Tsavo rapidly neared completion.
It was a little, little arrangement, Sahib, of which is it necessary to tell all the world?" "And when didst thou know who the Hajji was?" said Strickland. "Not for a certainty till he and our Sahib had returned from their visit to the Sheshaheli country. It is quite true as our Sahib says, the man-eaters lay, flat around his feet, and asked for spades to cultivate cotton.
That set all talking, and long before midnight Chinn's brain was in a whirl with stories of tigers man-eaters and cattle-killers each pursuing his own business as methodically as clerks in an office; new tigers that had lately come into such-and-such a district; and old, friendly beasts of great cunning, known by nicknames in the mess-such as "Puggy," who was lazy, with huge paws, and "Mrs.
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