Show fight a t for lift life with L liones id n L 19 S transport agent grasps beasts tongue during battle but Is eventually killed HUNTERS TELL WEIRD TALES TALE S one explains simple method of making animals sneeze themselves to death story about the roosevelt expedition london from nairobi east africa says a writer in the tha london dally daily mall mail comes a thrilling story of the death of a transport agent named kiepper KI rU opper who planed pinned down by a lioness he had wounded made a desperate bid tor for victory by putting both hands into the animals mouth and gripping its tongue africa Is a paradise tor for the lion hunter and the literature of the chase Is almost endless not nil all lion hunters hunter are strictly truthful however for instance in a remote african village says the ivr rl ter lter 1 I once cama caine across a deeply tanned prospector hu hunter Lr who swore that his favorite method of hunting bunting lions was to get the tha animals to sneeze themselves to death it 1 Is 19 9 quite simple he said in lion country you build a little arch of stone just big enough to allow the lion to enter with comfort but you must take care to build it of jagged stones and to see that the center stone stona of the area arch Is a particularly jagged one then you yon go out and shoot a zebra or some gome other toothsome creature from the lions point of view you drag the corpse under the arch pepper it heavily and then retire to your tent to sleep sneezes self to death in the night the lion comes cames creeps under the arch to his feast gets his nose filled with pepper and has an overpowering inclination to sneeze ile he sneezes and in the act throws up hla his head and dashes his brains out on the tha center jagged stone of your arch 1 I do not vouch for the truth ot of that story A party of men trekking la in Eho Ith desla odesta in an ox wagon heard beard a commotion one night among their tethered oxen and rushing toward the spot pumped about a dozen shots into the heaving mass from a distance of say forty yards the mass diminished and they advanced to find one of their oxen hor bibly mauled hauled by lions they dosed the corpse with nine and retired to their camp they heard the lions busy at the carcasi carcase all night and in the morning they found that the dead ox had practically alij disappeared but lying near the spot were five eve full grown lions two males and three females all poisoned that was a very considerable bag got by illegitimate means but here Is the true story of n better bag got legitimately incidentally it Is a very interesting example of sportsmens sports mens ns luck inch when the late president roosevelt and his son sofi nermit went to british east africa in 1009 1909 they were accompanied compa comp nied on their hunting trip by file late P F 0 selous one of tho the greatest hunters that ever lived Roosevel ts luck selous was particularly anxious to secure a specimen of the liast east african blk maced lion but on tho the whole trip he never even got a shot fit at one but theodore roosevelt Koo sevelt got throe three and kermet roosevelt eight and neither of them hail had ever been on an Afric african afi game hunting expedition some years agol ago a party of greeks greek trekking through portuguese zambella esla were followed for days by a auant old iton it on who took ono one tf their donkeys donkey each night until only one or of the whole team was left this donkey the terrified greeks were determined determine to retain at all costs when they made theli their camp that night they built around it a great stockade of bushes and thorns and la in the center of it they tethered the sole sola surviving donkey to their tent pole but withstanding noth these precautions 1 that night the pertinacious old lion sot got the last donkey |