Saved by a Pillow. '

Otago Witness, Issue 2202, 14 May 1896, Page 52

Saved by a Pillow. '

Captain G. J. Mollis, of the 9Jh Bombay Infantry, relates a thrilling incident of lione hunting. An English officer was recently shoot* ing big game in Somaliland. One sight, when he was in bed inMde his tent, a lion sprang over the rough thorn fence which it is usual to throw up around the encampment at night. Instead of pic-lung up -one of the men or animals tlia f must h• i hot-n lying about asleep in«ide the fence, he wmld have nonfc but the sports uiau himself, sui m&de a dash into his tent and seized him — foilunately only by tha hand. Then, by «omi wonderful piece of luck, as the lion changed his grip for the shoulder, he grabbed the pillow instead, and co vanished nilh bis prize. The pillow was found' next morning several bunrrtd yavt's di<-lu:il in th<- juDgle, and outside were also <h • tracks of a lioness, ft ho had evid«ntlj. been awaiting the return of her lord wirh something eatable. What were her conjugal remarks on the lion's arrival with tho pillow it is impossible to say. „