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Show HIS FIRST LION. " j Iluntor Stiimla Still anil Simply Stares (it jt - tllO ItOUHt. ' ' In 'Lion Hunting in Somaliland," 1 . Capt. Mollis tells how bo met his first I lion or, rather, two. lie had been I out on a hunt, finding: nothing1 better I , than gazelles und antelopes, and at : , 'nightfall, after supper, lit his pipe and " strolled to the river bunk. After a few minutes spent in meditation lie started to return and saw a lion and u lioness, ' not more than 20 yurds distant, eyeing him attentively. Capt. Mellis had not even a knife with him, and felt certain . that if he called for help the beasts ' would pounce on him. So he did the only thing possible be stood stock still, JiopingMhey might take him for an in-t in-t animate object. They growled once or twice, as if they suspected something, but finally drank and went away quietly. quiet-ly. After tliat he never stirred without a weapon of some kind. |