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Show i CUTTING UP A HIPPOPOTAMUS. I Tough Hide Can Be Relied On to I Blunt Many Sharp Knives. i To cut up a hippopotamus 13 no easy task. In some places the hide Is almost al-most two and a half inches thick, and before you have got through a hand's breadth your knife has completely lost its edge and requires to be rosharp-ened. rosharp-ened. The head and the feet are put on one side to be preserved as trophies of the chase, while the remainder re-mainder of the flesh is cut Into long, thin strips which, after they have been dried by hanging them on the tree branches, will keep good for a very long time. Tho ivory of the teeth and tusks, which Is of very One quality, used to be employed almost exclusively in the manufacture of false teeth; nowadays it is turned to all the purposes of ordinary Ivory. As for the hide, cut Into strips it is made into sticks, which are as good defensive weapons as one could wish to possess. Treated with oil they become be-come as transparent as tortoise shell, and look quito pretty. Out of hippopotamus hippo-potamus hide bullock drivers likewise make throngs for their whip9 which are positively everlasting, and fetch, relatively speaking, quite a good price. From "Hunting the Hippopotamus," in tho Wide World Magazine. |