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Show TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Shooting a Lion at a Distance of Four - Feet Is' in Exciting Expe-' Expe-' rlenoe. - To prove that lion hunting isn't at all a "pink tea," witness Stewart Edward Ed-ward White's experience aa told In Outing: "Suddenly I heard a tearing scramble scram-ble In the bush. Forty yards down I could see game trail coming up, and about the same dlstanco back 'an-othor. 'an-othor. The bank in front was precipitous. precipi-tous. I hurried for that strateglo point If the bluff hold the donga bottom bot-tom I could shoot him 'from above; If he came out either trail I'd got a good chance. "Instead of that a blg-maned lion scrambled up the wall of tho ravlno right at my faco, nnd stopped for an Instant four paces away. Just stop oft four paces. "He looked like a Hon angry about something. It was Somewhat startling for I was not expecting him; but' I bad' to get busy before ho .did. The first Bhot from the .405 did not knock him' oft his feet, but at that range It literally blew him slde'wlse as though the gust of a tornado should catch a man oft balance. Working the lover as fast as I could throw it, 1 put in another (they proved to be- threo Inches apart). This blew him backwards back-wards again, literally over the edge of the barranca. He roared and growled and leaped. -The third shot broke his foreleg. Another raked htm from stem to stern. He rolled on his. side and died roaring. . Fine, little Bcrap with lots of, excitement. "Found Momba Sasa next me with flvo moro Winchester cartridges spread out fanwlso In one hand and the Springfield cocked and ready In tho other. That fellow Is. all right." |