I was very fond of hunting when I was a young man. In the autumn of 1915, I was     in the northwest of India. One evening, after hunting in the forest all    , I was returning alone to the place where I had    up my tent. I was tired   hungry. It was getting   and darker, and I was walking slowly     a narrowpath. On my right was a wide river; on my left, a   , dark forest. All of a  I saw two green eyes looking at me from among the trees. I knew it    be a man-eating tiger. The tiger was getting ready to   on me.
My heart   . What could I do? Should I jump  the river and hope to save my life   swimming? Ilooked to the . In the river there was a   crocodile waiting to welcome me with its mouth    open. I was so    that I shut my eyes. And I thought it would be the end of my   . I heard branches moving   the tiger roared (咆哮) and jumped.  then I opened my eyes. What do you think had happened? The tiger had jumped right over me and now in the jaws (嘴) of the crocodile.
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