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Show H Iatciiino LIONS, K kjT'" '"""'Ir raujhi Them bj AWFroimnn who Ms I ted Bouth MM a the first half of ths een tiirj" able, to gather much Infor mnUm about life and sport In that eoigm n8 BjVM h, authority foi n nutl ilnguh r mode of nttack upon thefjna. Hr lmup, who formerly re sldRal Motlto, and la familiar wllh thJyCfltnsrl country assured me that thartnurkable accounts sometimes clrrt'Mfd as to the people of that part o(ji'rlca entitling lions by the tall, Und' hlih I confess, I was tery fnJfdulous were perfectly true He weBlionws thnt the method prevailed, nnJt rertalnl) not uncommon arnOKthe people IJjih would some-tlrnts some-tlrnts Vcome extrcmnly dangerous llajncliecome arcuslotned to human flSL ey would not willingly eat nnyhltj: ele When n neighborhood begmi Infested, the men would do-tcrllni do-tcrllni on the measures lo be ndoptel trfjld thrmselrrs of the nulinnre The, lormlng themselves Into n Imnd, thg ouId proceed In search of Ihe'r rt5Jl .foe As the men stroo cloio til 06 soother tho Hon would mako n rpWg on somo one of the party eV?y tian of course, hoping that ho lOthl esrapc tho attack when In- slatl; others would dash forward and fifc sis tslt close to the Imdy, lifting till up with all their might Thus thy Hot only astonished the anlmnl iir?took him absolutely off his guard, !i they rendered his efforts powerless j the moment Other men closed In wji their spenrs nnd pierced the mon-jtr mon-jtr through nnd through All this rs done not for tho exciting plcis-11 plcis-11 of a lion-hunt nor as an exhibition ifproweu. but to rid tho neighbor-M neighbor-M 'kt the vlllnges ot a dreadful njmy, and to save the men them-iftcfrom them-iftcfrom becoming In their turn tlj bfeakfait or tho supper ot this jtsnarva of the desert Youths' Com-inlon, |