The phantom slayer.

I was a conspicuous mark for the eager slayers in the adjacent underbrush; and I ought, of course, to rejoin my section as quickly as possible.

Ye who listen with credulity to the stories of hunters, and pursue with eagerness the traces of bears; who expect that courage will rise with the emergency and that the deficiencies of bravery will be supplied by the tightness of the fix, attend to the history of Rasselas, an inexperienced bear-slayer.

"Remember one thing, Daniel little lion slayer!

We have forgotten that the history of the world has been as yet written in blood; that the story of the human race is the story of its heroes and its martyrsthe slayers and the slain.

As for the rest of thy band, we will take their names and have them duly recorded as royal rangers; for methinks it were wiser to have them changed to law-abiding caretakers of our deer in Sherwood than to leave them to run at large as outlawed slayers thereof.

"What doth the jealous-pated slayer of his wife and unborn child within the reach of free-spoken voices, and mayhap of well-directed blades?

Is my prospective slayer going to keep me waiting much longer?

Even Hind, the savage slayer of Hamza, submitted, and received her pardon at Mahomet's hands.

But you are always ready for him, my dear victorious Man-slayer.

And I for my part do not affirm that he was the actual slayer of Caesar,not because he was not willing, but because in this, too, he was timid,yet by the very course of his actions I say that Caesar perished at his hands.

The blessed Vishnuthe slayer of Madhuhe, indeed who is known on earth as Kapila, and whose glance alone, O exalted one, destroyed the illustrious sons of Sagara, when they approached him with loud sounds in the bowels of the earth,that illustrious and invincible Hari is capable, O Brahmana of doing us a great service.