d hands, trembling with excitement.

A practised hunter would have sent bullet after bullet crashing into the
monster's brain; but Dinny was not practised, and it was not until he
had thoroughly convinced himself that the animal could not get through,
that he stole out, and bending down, cautiously advanced nearer and
nearer to the huge beast, which snorted, and grunted, and squealed in
its futile efforts to get at its assailant.

If it had gone twenty yards to its left, it could easily have passed the
obstacle; but it was pig-like enough in its nature to keep on trying to
force itself through the obstacle it had tried to pass, and seeing this,
Dinny went on, gaining a little courage the while.

"Shure I'll go close enough to make quite sartain," he muttered; "but
it's like having a bad dhrame, that it is. Now where had I better shute
him--in the mouth or the eye?"

He decided for the eye, and raising the rifle at last he took a long aim
at not six feet distance, when the great beast uttered so furious a roar
that Dinny turned once more, and fled behind the tree.

"Shure and what'd I be freckened of?" he said angrily. "Not of a baste
like that." And walking out once more he repeated his manoeuvres,
approaching cautiously; and as the rhinoceros began straining, and
sprang to force its way through, Dinny took careful aim at the monstrous
beast, and fired.

"Shure it's aisy enough," he said, as the beast started back; and
placing a fresh cartridge in his piece, he fired again at where the
animal stood in the full moonlight swaying its head to and fro.

It was impossible to miss; and Dinny fired again and again, nine shots
in all, growing encouraged by his success; and the result was that the
monster fell over upon its side at last with a heavy thud, just as
Chicory dropped to the ground, and made the hero jump by touching him on
the back.

"Ah, be aisy; what are ye thrying to frecken a man for like that?" said
Dinny. "But look at that, ye little haythen; that's the way to shute.
Now let's go back and tell them they needn't be alarmed about the big
pig, for its Dinny himself that has done the thrick."

CHAPTER THIRTY SIX.

DINNY RELATES HIS ADVENTURE.

Dinny's story was hardly believed when he walked into camp, but Chicory
was there to corroborate his words, and the astonishment felt was
intense.

"You--you shoot a rhinoceros, Dinny!" said his master.

"Shure and why not, yer hanner?" said Dinny. "D