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Show ATTACKED BY A RHINOCEROS Doctor 8hlby Tall How Ho Killed tho Hugo Bmt With a Snap Shot On one expedition notable In my memory became I waa unaccompanied by any other white men I apled a huge rhinoceros under a fig tree not more than a hundred yards away, writes Poet or Shelby, the big game banter. ' As soon as the boys saw that rhino they grubbed up their loads, and started start-ed on down the trail. I decided not to kill the huge beast, and waa about to turn In my tracks, when he rushed me anortlng and low-1 erlng his head. 1 He waa upon me before I waa In a position to shoot, ao there waa noth-j Ing to do but leap nimbly to one side. He put on the brakes and almost' stopped, then continued on down the trail In the wake of the porters.. They were heavily loaded and would have difficulty In escaping, ao I made up my mind I would have to kill him. . Aa I raised my rifle be waa Just turning a bend 20 yards down the trail And, scarcely taking aim, I fired. It waa a snap shot for his body. I fancied that he lurched forward. At any rate, he disappeared around the bend and I could hear him rolling over and over down the trail, while the cries of a dozen or more terror-stricken natives rent the air. I hurried forward. Around the bend I found loads scattered everywhere. Some boya had scrambled upon large rocks. Two had Jumped Into a tree. Some had Jumped aside. One of these had been bowled over by the rhino, which then rolled over him, but luckily the boy had fullen between two rocks, which received the ponderous weight of the beast Instead. |
