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Show Ifoiiarda. wurthog. an ! tnnu-- kno.-k.him over I .I'M n it see. as at nieiah'e dikdik aud birds. In the that moioe'ii I drew back my rxVT rooky hills I saw several although aa arily. ITS. were absolutely safe inside a i.'ius of (me morning my companion was ' m i iii.rH thorns, the whole thing felt rouseii hy his iiui.io. who told him iiiiihasai!ly clove. Whcii I looked I could that throe In mis worn jus t omsshis a out ag.-ieasily have touched ground within InO yards line of the lions, which vus standing strip of of his ciiM'.i. lliloi'n In. was ready, with it buvpiiws on the donkey and two or firet of iln imm j impi'.J on 'its l.iriil qiinrteis wlll.In a w ponios und giilhq.ed after the linns -- of our fence. Tin oth r lion waa three very I'.ae nihies wiili manes -- stiiinllng ou the fur side looking me wliioli were by thsl time making off. stra!:T,t in tin f:ni: lmt I am sure ha Thii natives uieaM to try and keep could not se tiie. us the moon was them engaged till ilie ' hunter had right in his eves. ni:i:i:i-- j thorn shine time to K''t his rifle and cartridges us if they wire alight. 1 could only and catoli them up. The lions were see his head, as the other lion's body tfkim galloping aiming scattered mimosa was in the wav. so I determine, to t into Ills angry. She liii.l rim into some long give up the chase after Km yards or scrub, making for the thick hush be- give the out nearest me a shot. There lai I - did g.-- t a bullet o. This Miny of Massau's was alanit Mini hud chioip-out towards turio-ii- . Hi.it i:ii-mill. growl flank yond, and with an object in view a was very little of him to be seen exwere going Up to i he best I ever saw in Somaliland, lion ran gi t along at a very fair puce when (!: 11, Ih mii I nx H If1' his Ini? liorco'y, but he was so cept his hind lie would not put a price oil it, be- - in the cool of the morning. One of close I was sure the bullet would drive yanls townilx ms. :is If tr.'ing In iiuikc hf'bl i'. H oause he Raid he could make quite a the men got a start of the others and fever ui Whether ii p his mi ld In charge. right through him. r. .spcciable Income hy making looting WHS rapi.n,id two Inm- 'I'lin mu nr nnt I do not the Ilona,. overhauling Quick Shooting in a Crisis. expeditions on its buck, as it was so W(M.n ,e losr si;;ht of them for a mo- - i Mm slinky In know, us in) i 'iii I li:;i ri l As tiie rifle came up tj my shoulder t , could it. rust Caleb nobody lirflllfilIK last Mi so ill lie had to give her up. merit III! till! IK'lllt of tin- Kllllllldr-rp to the bush i it touched a branch, which seemed I me Mix the lioness WM shikari told In Ms mi before on in lie where had hist seen them, and as him nos, tn aave a rony. Pompk ejjn(1 a like a pistol shot, and crack to make ! from beat In much r i.eing badgered very liim PM- at hllll he roiinilei ,t jmi fni: !if A year arter this I met iiassan from behind and the other two from the lion turned half round to see what rilli- ami tin about in the sun and be was sure we IjuIIi-- i In mu i.iy same moment I Ared, I owed her one for lind tier. again, and asked him liow hia pouy Ihe front. They had got sick of run- ft was. At the Mii'J him. over und over r.nd he fell, rolling ft waa said was. we so but lie In well, started at! very would nnt frlKliieniug Iiassan. It is m i mi limn liki'ly ning and bad waited lor him. The naand roaring loudly. have charged, us 1 have several times once, Iiassan uni coming, hut sending that lie had very nearly lost it a short tive did a very clever thing. There against tiie In his struggles he seen a lion make ibis kind of demon- - a relation of Ills on the same pony. time before. He hail been down ill was no chance of getting away by j Thinking that of our runic ex-! away 1 might, i carry zTeba, on we a waterless lie ride to the place After a short plain looting got st rat inn when slightly hit. more, galloping, as he was regularly hemmed I gave him two more shots to finish think, to try to frighten his assailant and found the trucks going Into a pedltlon with aoine other Mdegalla in, so, hulf checking the iiony, he put him. As I shot the second time, the Ilian anything el u A lion that really long strip of high feathery grass. We warriors. After a successful raid they his heel on Its sillier, end Jumped which h:td run hack a few other lion, tn ami avoid Hassan And and no could pursuit, means charging up comes quite silent cast all around split up right into the middle of a mimosa came and stood close to the yards, on home so some to of his decided was burn tracks the out, way fast corning driving mtv , along hush. Almost as he jumped the lions galloping looking straight towards us. It was about 200 yards the looted camels In front of him. It knocked the pnti-h- . ground like a dog. the potty over, ami when my donkey, I pulled at his chest directly I waa fill I It broad. could was a very dry year, and although long ami perhaps came he fuund them loaded. Ue up companion A Wounded Lion at Bay. plunged forward, hitting not command the whole of It, so I was the rainy aeason. he bad been eating it, taking no notice of the the corner of our zereba. then swerved j unable to And men at it to in water to the the told we could any light top pools While this was going oil dismounted men close by. The Arst shot OIf auJ we h),arJ him crash Into hear llussan shouting in the distance, ami along one aide, and Abdulla and give hia pony. The result waa that hit one and while he was following found him' stonedead wlim. U get good sport ill so uovt we ran off tuwarda the sound. I look up our station halfway down having been ridden hard for two or It up the other two gave his men the th morning. T,1P hurt had gone Somaliland the llrsl V lleti we started the shouts seemed the other side, about 20 yards out three days with little or no water to These two lions were decidedly Blip. through his heart. These two lions thing is to gei a to la almost stationary, but as we ran from the edge. At the bottom end I out of luck, aa I gut them the same were very (Inc specimens. One had Tln-ron see warrior to the the good slit I, art. off j till pony put they gut further and further night a thick, almost jet black mane, the are excellent men to at last we could heur nothing. We if the lioness broke tliat way. AlIn found wiih care then turned to Approaching Big Game in Jungle. other had a lighter inane, but for a hack fur the wound- most directly the grass was lit a big go und good lin k, hut a ed lion. As we got near (lie place sKitied hyena blundered out an.l came That morn lug a lioness killed a wild Hon very thick. There la no great many wdin are w(ir,. W(. p.,,) a.y him, we could hear within a few yards of us, but the heifer close to my camp. I had al- doubt these were the Hous seen the day before, as the next day, riding absolutely worthless. a Ireineiidmis row going on, men great part of the patch was biirur' beready seen her tracks several times. over to visit the other camp, I followed In addition lo oi liwas of the lioness. to which in fore there water back any vessels sign carry hut they had always led us on io some shouting, 'logs harking, und the unmistheir back trail to within a mile of ars. 1 have always Imd one man, Ab- takable grunts of an angry lion, Hun-iifn- Then I caught sight of her slinking to the isuiy, und it seemed as if noth-alonwe where hllla lost had them. stony dulla Asliur, as head shikari. Besides through the thin grass at the j ng could lie done to save it. At last This time the same thing happened the spot up. wt found the lion, with his being an sgreeiihli- rumpuiiion, he is shoulder broken, standing in a bush edge of the strip going towards the j he thought of a plan. Driving the again, so. thinking she would probably Shortly before this I shot three far and away the host Under of game I surrounded lit a respectful distance lmt tom end. She did not see us, as j camels at top speed to the wells, he come back that at a lion which wsb euling my times Anlsh to tbe night have ever seen In the country. hy Ihe little dogs. They kept up an we were rather behind her and stand- - gave them us much water as they heifer, we decided to sit The night was as dark aa donkey. up for her. Hia pluck Is undenhilde, and the Incessunt could drink, and hurried them back We therefore made an enclosure of pitch. The Hon took very little notice and every now and lug quite still. yapping, have had with then tlii! lion would make a drive at only diniculiy 1 When I shot she seemed to stumble again, lie found the pony where he thorns under a mimosa bush near by. j UJ the two first shots, although one of him him is to prevent going Tbe hat top of tbe bush came them hit the dunkey In the ribs. The where 1 did not ran to go myself. down to meet the thorns built third shot was a very lucky one. The' This imiy sound exaggerated praise of one could bullet hit the donkey hi Ihe stomach, and around up all a native, hut nmeiig other things ho ruing through, caught the lion at thn wholo tell thing was and, hardly ot tll th grappled a lion which Imd knocked me the Ju,'tl"n In (he front there was a not a bush, down. Iifiug severely mauled before chest, killing him on the spot. One and to the at shoot hole hack through, be got the brute off, so (hat I naturwe left an opening so that we could would think that a 577 rifle blazed In ally entertain a very high opinion of ' A tier this wo returned his' face at about Ave yards would get inside. Him. Owing to Ills skill hi trucking any linn . This one had killed ; hack to camp, and In the evening after frighten I have only lost one wounded lion mil & sheep and eaten tbe night before, bed-I off went dinner a?ain, taking my of many that went hit. uud that was It front the same village where taking on This was a donkey. donkey ding not his fault, as the blood stopped alI eat up for him. i also to serve as a bait, for tbe natives most directly and the ground waa The two foregoing stories would bail cut up and taken away tbe heifer. nothing but stones for tulles. This seem to show that a large percentage one We tied the donkey by foreleg, peaks for Itself, as nity one who has almost touching I the fence of our of the Hons killed In Somaliland are hot lions knows how dllliciilt It Is to zereba, and after shoving In my bed- shot at night over a bait. This is not recover a wounded beast without dogs. as It la quite a chance If a ding, crawled lu through the opening really so, 1 only once hail the help of dogs lion the place where you have passes Two men had who at the bark. after wounded lions. We were camped a donkey tied up. Night shooting, to us hole come crammed this with 'up down lu the Hand among ihe Uldcgall with thorns, and, then went away, my mind, is a thing to be avoided, exvillages under Sultan llerla. One day now and then as an experience. talking loudly to! make the lioness cept 1 went out to try to get some meat was safi If she were It generally means a very disturbed all think that fir the natives, accompanied by a wari night, especially If there are any anywhere near. rior called Iiassan ami his imy. I hyenas about, and in the murnlng you I time about some for After looking had Just shot an oryx, and wo were are not At for a hard days work. Oclinm-s- s out made the along slinking cutting it up, when the smallest .Socasionally by bright moonlight it la come our bush. She not would behind mali I have ever seen came running but If circumstances up to the donkey, but lay down some very Interesting, up to say he had just observed live 0I1K being killed by day, It off under a hush. There waa no way lions asleep under a tree close hy. hole on that side, so I could not shoot Is rather like shooting a licar In a Ane This man belonged tn the country to kill a lion over with nnv certainty; and at last, needwho do not tribe of Mldgaiis-peo- ple bait at night.. Sometimes it Is the a I Abdulla down, lay ing sleep, telling live together In one tribe, lmt are to kepp his eye ou the lioness, and only chance you have of getting a Hon, scattered nil over SoiiiaMliind tn differ wake me If there was any chance of either because you aro moving camp lit villages, where they are eliteMy a shot. I had not slept long when he next day, or because the country Is engaged In kitting autchqie f.ir meat touched me, at thn same time putting unsuitable for tracking. Under the other Somalis, as a rule, thinking It Ills hand over my mouth to prevent circumstances you are bound to try It below their dignity to do anything lint I have never myself shot more than tne calling out on botng suddenly go out oeeasinnully on looting expedl two lions In one night, but a man awoke. I got up on my knees, looking tlons. Mldgans lire tinned with hows 1 met (n the country showed I whom moment a out hut for of the hole, and poisoned arrows, und each of of four skins he had shot when me the out could not make anything. thmn carries a knife. Until quite up over tne deud body of an sitting was even a but It lovely night, by lately no other Somull would use a It was very dark or he the brightest moonlight a lion is not elephant. bow, but now it Is quite a common have got any number, as he told might a very easy thing to see. There was thing to meet a native belonging to me he was shooting most of the night, in front of an tbe donkey, glade open another tribe who has discarded his and that In the morning there were and, at last, standing out in the open. tears for a how und quiver of of many Hons all round the cartracks I saw two lions. They seemed as if poisoned arrows. cass. not out could make the why they I have once or twice sat tip over a donkey did uot run away, and stood Shooting Lions with Poisoned dead animal. This way of getting lions" WITH A SAVAGE SNARL HE CHARGED DIRECTLY AT TtE THICKET WHERE I WAS CONCEALED. I As him. still at looking quite Arrows. watched they suddenly started, and Is only likely to be successful when In Mims had are occasionally killed hy them, but they were much ton quick forward, a had but left hut herself It, very way, recovering came racing towards us side by aide there are many hyenas about, as they tfhlgaiiK. but the lailsoii ou the arrows for him witli his broken shoulder, and caught sight of tho man on the pony, immediately proceeding to kill and cut like two enormous dogs. When the make such a noise that they will attract any lion thnt may come past cannot. lie very strong, as frequently, were nt him again directly he re- nnd before I could shoot again she open the camels, he took the water out lions got up to the donkey they did after being sick two or three times, treated to the hush. The little Mid-gn- was half way towards him, going like of their stomachs and gave It to the not sPKin to stop their rush, but within a reasonable distance, Ivngnians. Green A the lion seems to reeorer ami get and one of my men wen close a flash. He had not seen her when pony, which revived sufficiently to donkey and Hons all went down with liy permissionCo.. ofNow York. After a few a crash together. How they actually As I I shot, ns she was hidden by the struggle to the wells. away, t'aplaln Sway in gives an hy, yelling with excitement. (Copyright, ISO), by BhiJ. B Hampton.) of tlx way In which these Mid walked up tit try lo get a shot with- grass, and by the time he got his pony days' rest it completely recovered. gans hunt the ervx wiili their dogs. out hitting oiii of the pack, the Hon turned around aud started she was Hassan added that he entild very soon Hut to get on with my story. The look no iiinre not Me of the dogs, but close to him. He galloped straight get some more camels, and that he little ,Mi'!.'.:m curl. '.I a how nearly us kept-hi- s eyes Axed on me. I never away from me, and 1 dare not tire at would rather have cut the throats of king as himself, and was followed liy saw a lion look nastier, lmt I suppose the ll'iiiess for fear of hitting him. a hundred than have lost his ony. about a dozen small native dogs with his broken shoulder had him, For nearly 200 yards It looked any This story shows a great deal of re- curly sterns and prick ears. These linl 1 shot him without diflieulty. The money on the lioness. She got right source in a native, hut the life a So-- JaPne,e Could Not Understand Their vain, for the various garments which we had used for the purpose lay scatDeeire for Privacy While in little curs wer wonderfully broken. Miilgan. lifter ealliug his dogs, had under the pony's tail, lmt did not seem mall leads makes him wonderfully the Bath. tered on the Aoor, nnd the opening was The man trotted off In front of us. rtiii mi uf(r ns. and hud rontc on the to know how to strike, an.l nt length, quick at Amling a way out of a Ax of occupied by a line of little heads, one aud when he got near the plaee where wounded lion. We skinned this beast, to my great relief, the pony bognn thia kind. It was very lucky the potty An Interesting article in the Wide above tbe other, while ten gleaming he had seen the lions ho simply put and the tittle Mtdgau rather amused to gain on her. Site at once pulled up, was not killed hy Hons or hyenas World Magazine U entitled Two Girls eyes were Interestedly Axed upon us! out his hand, and all the dogs lav us. us he got so very ituii-annoyed and turned into n bush where site tay while Hassan was away. in Japan, by Irene Lyon. Here Is Miss down hi a bunch and never attempted because his dogs would not eat some down stretched out at full length, nearwas before Hassan's Just pony to follow oil after us. Then we stalked gri:it chunks of raw lion lWh tie cut panting, ltunning up, I shot her beOpposes Bleached Flour. l.yon's account: ly caught by the lioness we had a pony The Ivancet (Munlon! agrees fully Itsoir which looked like a carefully towards a big (horn tree ris- off und offered them. We were on fore she could jirepare for another ef- killed The bath by Hons, the man mi his back with the action of the bureau of cheming alsive tin hush. This was where our way to skin the other lion when fort. My Arst bullet had gone through largo box was a wooden structure the lions were sul.l to he. The hush wi met Ih.sMin looking rather sorry tiie muscles of tiie forearm just below escaping rather cleverly. At that time built Into a corner, and all round the istry of the department of agriculture was very open, and when we came In for hliUM-:r- . the shoulder, ami being solid had only we had two separate camps, six or Inside ran a convenient ledge for sil- In this country In ruling against the He said that the llones ight of the tree the lions were Just had trotted quite quietly at llrst. and drilled quite a small hole. The na- seven miles apart, each of them on the ting on. The water being little short bleaching of wheat Aour. The public." dornmplng. There were four of them, lie had brought tier round in a circle tives said that the reason she could edge' of the Marar Prairie, on a ban of boiling, our movements were de- says the Lancet, "would be well ad not Avo an old lioness and three towards ihe Im-- w lure, he had left not catch the pony was because a Hun or open grass plain many miles In ex- cidedly cautions, and. curling ourselves vised to ahamlon tbe fallacious notion tlons, pcrluipri not quite full grown, its. riding alongside of her. and shoul- - could not spring before a inm.ientary tent. This was the best place for up on the ledge, we tried to grow ac- that the whiteness of bread Is a mark and with very lit'!. mane. Iiassan iug to let us know win-rhe was. halt to crouch. If this is so, a pony Hons It has ever been my luck tn come customed to the temperature by de- of quality. On the contrary. It nearly had followed close behind on his , niuckilv she cros-e- d the track of could always get away from a Hon across. Hardly a day passed that grees before plunging right in. When, always means nn insipid, unpalatable o I shouted to lilui to try an t keep the Ilona were not seen by one or the other thinking to remove the traces of our bread, and an attractive ffavor is a fac-i.,, wounded lion, mid after smelling galloping straight behind it, unh-son the Hone's, and ran on my- - i(l his was a had such uuone that the Hon of us. very often rMht out in the open, jmiriicy by a viyiv.-oui,;,,,.,! Iiony application of tor of considerable importance in conIt was cool, A u la a Her one of th-- ' Ou two or miles from any hush. tn.iiiitr.ciiV.c. li nking off at a gallop could come alongside. we scrub to ourselves, it nection with the digest ihillty of food. began snap, lions. Tids one did not seem much t he got Miree occasions I have lven chased clotldy weal Iter while we were there, suddenly occurred tn us that such a The destruction of the natural color of eharjp.-- ; M.u Inclined to run. am! alter a short m flour by bl aching agents synchronizes to lent lur. At Iat to ro!f in the open grass plain, but and the linns seemed to do most of to piicrcditi was net clique! te," out of burst I managed to g.t n lmlh-- t hit.) a fair start, and my their hunting In the davtime. There ruiifchleiutinn to the other bathers. So with thn dost ruction of its attractive alwuvs have got on no ini tiie bush p him somewhere just us he disappeared lit!! . wh.-rhe had lost her. petty bit bad tto d'flleul'y In keeping wore so many, and they were so bold, we stepped out, sapid ourselves flavor. Such tampering with the staff Somnifs were quite nervous Into some thick hushes. bo made Illegal. When we had skinned the oilier Hen out of the Ihm's way. potty boy of that the well, and rinsed our bodies with the of life' should At tliat moment we caught sight of w made a cast to try to pick up the mine was very nearly one day about walking through the hush in the wooden ladles supplied for the purHorses May Be Insured. Hot wen us we shot 21 another Hon trotting along parallel to fourth, lmt cmld make of in the open. He was trying to round daytime. back into the pose, before The Saxon government has a noabout 200 yards off. The w ounded him 1 never got llils lion, although up n lion, amt got ratl.er too close Hons In this plaee in a little over a th me d a horse insurance. All horses, Hesides Hons there was on il tir-one was keeping up a continuous low lie killed one of our donkeys the next 1 pony. He only Just fortnight. We were silting on the ledge, chat- asses and their crossbreeds, over six more game than I have over seen got away. This same lion afterward growling In the hushes, so, thinking day. peacefully, when a sudden premv months old, may now be Insured. ting herds of hart else. I.arge chased me ami two or three of my he would not get far away, we ran to of danger made me look up, and it ii ion Lioness. Badgering an Angry men for quite a lone time. I'nless a beeste. oryx, and Summering' gazelle cut off the other. He turned off when Artificial Silk Made In France. which greeted my eyes lie in direcspectacle seen be were to In every had I feeding back not We been falls am camp very pony sure there Is he caught sight of us, and we had a down, France has five great mills and a one utter to me gasp, caused agonized In there the Uesldes this. open long, stern chase after hint, as a re- long when my companion came tn, say- nothing to he feared from a Hon In tion. sink rapidly out of sight. The number of smaller ones at which artisult of which I was so blown I could ing he had run ucross a lioness tn the open. If one gives him a pretty were a good many ostriches and a few and then we had taken to block up the ficial silk Is made. There are three not hit him, although he was lobbing the hills, which lie was sure was the wide berth, so hs to pet a start when hunting cheetahs. In the hush at the pains the entrance had all been la kinds of 1L at gap Waller's were gaour camps along not more than 100 yards ahead. one we had seen, as she was very be charges. As a rule the lion will back of zelles. ! t h'-a- -l kiip-hpriu- iiiw-ii.n- i ! i n oi: ! tin-li- ' On the Spoor of the King of Beasts : - si-- - , I m- - j ! ' i j I j i By Lord Dclamere ! l j e ' g - j . i l j I low-cast- g n 1 j j s j s pn-feetl- fi-- j u th-b- i 1 nnv-wher- e i . |