Show MR ROOSEVELT KILLS HIS FIRST I HIPPO But we got within half a mile of oC horse without seeing a hip hippo hippo po and ami the tho light was rapidly fadIng Judd announced that we would go home hut but took one oue last look around the next bend ben and instantly sank to his knees beckoning to mo mc I 1 crept forward on and h he pointed out to mo me an object in the stream fifty yards off under the tho overhanging branch of a tree which jutted out from rom the steep sleep bank opposite In that light I should not myself have recognized It as a hippo head but It was vms one looking toward Ole me with tile the ears cars up an and the eyes oyes and forehead above water I aimed for the cen center center ter the sound told that time the bullet had struck somewhere on tho rho head and the tho animal disappeared without a splash Judd was sure J I had killed but bul I svgs WIlli by bj no means so 50 confident m myself and there thero was no way of toll tell tollIng telling Ing until next morning for the tho hippo always sinks when shot and does docs not rise to the surface for several hours 1 back ack wo we w walked to tho buse At next morning Cuninghame hame Judd an and I With a crowd of pore por porters I were down at the spot There was a very leaky leacy bolt boat In which Cnn Cun CunInghame Judd and I intending Intend ing ln to drift and paddle down stream while Ull rho porters porter walked along the ball bunk We did not have far to go for ps JS we wC rounded the first point wo we heard the port porters rs break In into to guttural of oC delight and there ahead of oC us by Q a little Island of pap papyrus was the dead hippo With tho help of time the boat oat It was wag towed to a convenient an and then the por er dragged It ashore It was as a cow of good size for ono dwelling In a small river whore where they never nover approach the dimensions of oC those making their homes In n a great lake lalo like the tho Vic torla anz This hl one near nearly nearly ly two thousand eight hundred pounds trod and I 1 could well believe that a big biglake biglake lake bull would weigh between three and four tons Tn in wild f regions glons hIppos rest on sandy bars hars and even como come ashore to feed b by day but there thoro are InhabItants they land to feed only at night From Game Trails b by Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt In the January Scribner |