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I was half asleep & did not realize at first that it was a leopard

I seemed to be dreaming the sound of some large, soft-footed creature padding quietly through the house, the doors of which were wide open because of the intense heat

While I observed him, I was all the time breathing his natural odor, a wild primeval smell of sunshine, freedom, moon & crushed leaves, combined with the cool freshness of the spotted hide, still damp with the midnight moisture of jungle plants...