First Traveller: "So you have returned from Africa? Had any narrow escapes?" Second T.: "Only one —a regular prize-winner, I should think." First T.: "Let me hear it." Second T.: "Well, I was chased by a big lion, and, having no cartridges Jeft, I threw away my rifle and faced the brute; but as he sprang at me I caught him by the lower jaw with one hand and by the noso with the other. And there I stood and held his mouth wide open until he starved to death. A narrow escape, eh?"
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Otago Witness, Issue 3251, 5 July 1916, Page 78
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