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Show SUMMONED LIONS TO RESCUE Quick Wit of Woman Traveler In U .; Wild of Africa Saved Herself r " and Her Driver. With only n hunchback Ituttcntot , driver for company, I was traveling along the White Fine nnd Paradise V .trails through the Transmnl before tho ltoer. unr, wrftcs Mr, Hatdcn In the Wide World Magazine, vihen one - morning we drew near n big Kafir "stnd" and outspnnned for breakfast. .' Scarcely was our mcnl oer when several old men who bail recognized me nt n distance ciune to consult me ft about nit outbreak of skin disease. 1 ? recommended that they bnthe In the JjL hot spring", ami eat milk and egctn- t tries lusteud of meat, and tnoe the p stud to n higher spot In the hills. They then asked me to come and Ihc with them as a doctor. I reasoned with them for n time, but when ut ln they . threatened mo I ordered my drher to 'lnspan while I coTered the lender with my rifle. Thus c got snfely nway. My driver demurred nnd almost mutinied mu-tinied when, nfler four hours' unbroken unbro-ken Journey, I InsUted that w camp lit n big water tree; but ho dared not disobey me, nnd we rested there nbout an hour. 1 was thinking of Inspannlng n when six hlick Knllrs npenreI, com fit lug nt ii run liter the hill. Allbough i such an occurrence ' us nut unusual, something nnincil me that this was j1 not n friendly Visit. 11 Itcnieiuberlng t tin t the bush near the 1(4 water ll'ee ns tho home of numerous v lions, I run to n largo nick, which nm V lielloued mil like u liiHn. mid, bend- i , liiftiver the hollow, I gue the Hum' 1 muting . rv. 1 The liciirer Knflis now Were onlj dome twOhuudrd jnrils uwny, nnd I behind them itlw iri (.pining out I the bill. They lai'ghed ul my feeble im.jf rlc,t "8 "'"J r,,n " 'he slope, for ju -It was the wrung season. Hut sudden-"8jCp sudden-"8jCp ly from thabush, east, west and south, ,W there rose u wild tumult of aiiswelg 7j call. Not waiting to e what hap- I 'Ind, I Heel to the cart. Never did 1 I cover gixund so quickly, and never .1 hall I remember how I scrambled In. '1 Tbe drhcr bad the mules ready, and II we rushed away at top speed to the I north l In spite of the Jolting of tbe cart, I l'i waV.'hed the trail behind us. nM raw 1 that tJ nearer Kafirs had turned buck at the first Hon call and nm-t have run right Into thn nnluuiK We heard the uproar of their onslaught uboe I the din of the mule's feet and the curt. c Iteturnlng Inter by the snnie route, a we pnsvd the big water tree nnd I enme upon n few scattered hones .(hut wern the-reiiinlns of the six Knllrs. t |