Show ia ni clr cir lox nox atohi st ohi i I 1 remember a story told me some timi urns ago relating lff taa locan an acquaintance of wj my own aa he heis hels is a queer queen fellow y ruil full ofus 0 C fua and always ready leady bifora joke jokey and has haa ludicrous way of making faces facts ano ana emitting curlo curio curious howls which I 1 wih win defy d fy the most solemn methodist to wit irit 1 ness nesa unmoved the nature of the man renders what I 1 am ani going to tell you appear more absurd than the real ii nar ron justifies but aa as I 1 cant c con eon veya proper idea of that I 1 will just tell you wha told to tome mei must state first though that the poor fellow go goi got a bad fall frombois from his hia hors esome years ago byj byi which his leg was broken and he dim jim been obliged ever since to wear wearisome so some bome pae iron apparatus to assist it for the broken le leg is shorter than the other this necessity n c etsity obliges him to hobble bobble but he can ean scuttle aver ayer the ground at a wonderful pace jn in ther theu lher respects he lp i a talip good mank he was waa piece lion ogIn ngin ugin lq kattawar Katt iwar jn some parts of the abe district it is tole toie tolerably open tha the used to follow folio y game gama ow horse horbe horseback backi ride up then dismount toge to get ashot unless their steady enough 11 jostand kostand i fire tire from their thein backs after the shot they quickly re mounted and gallop galloped ej t fact sot soi something in irk the manner that the african way of conducting the is described 4 qu one occasion my friend had turned up a couple coupie of furrowed furro waed awed lions and was opt apt ip wing them on the plain he maii mali managed to get within range andas and as his horse harse would not nob stand quiet enough for him to nire fire from his back he jumped off and threw thiis the bridle over his bis arm by some chance however omitting to slip his hand through ita it well weil he got gob a fair shot and hit one of the lions hard but the noise moise startled the horse As there was nothing to check it oft on it galloped leaving my friend standing he fired his bis second barrel and then had the h hor bor or seeing the wounded lion lioa chargi charging pg down upon him himi all head tail tali talland and legs I 1 and roaring his rr rifle was now useless and und of course there was no time to load his first impulse naturally was to bolt boit boltas as hard bard as he could and accordingly away he stumped for the nearest tree but long before he reached it the roars became closer and closer behind him and be he felt that he had not a chance of reaching the tree before being overtaken by the angry brute still be he sped on with the instinct of self preservation but the lion was fast closing with him what could ba bel done there was no time to he be lost in a few more bounds his head might be crushed in by the blow of a paw or his man mangled led limbs be quivering in the ani animals mis relent relentless lecz jaws it suddenly occurred to him fo tny try and startle the beast by some unusual combination of form and sounds his resolve was immediately taken and act without delay ly in his pace with his back still toward the dhar char charging ging lion now drawing very close he ducked his head and body till be he looked at it from between his legs Ie gsand and in that position posit iob loo made some of the tho most hideous faces and gave utterance to some of the most appalling yells at the same time geati culat ilig wildly with his bis arms this was a metamorphosis for which the savage beast was vas unprepared just justabe be for ethere had beena heena run ruu runaway away man ae leggins gin gln it atas hard bard as he could coulder lit lu front b but t the brute was staggered and hesitated hesitate d in his headlong careen career thenn thed pulled t ap p and looked advanced a step ai anid arid id looked more morer closely heard a frantic yell of extraordinary power the thel last despairing effort lof of the ithe huetter huun hutt ter turned aud and with towering tall trotted off to his companion dompa ilion lilon now disappearing pear ingin in the distance after a short space my friend hrose arose almost burp purple n the face from the violence of his bis exertions ions and the unpleasantly low posit position ign ot othia hia his head but much gratified i and chuckling greatly at ht the success af his nis ingenious stratagem stata genk gem k r i |