Lieut. Colonel Patterson in a newbook'on hunting' in East Africa, tells a story-of a lady who scared a. rhinoceros with her umbrella. He relates the incident thus:—"Next instant I saw the vicious hoad of a huge rhino dashing at me at full spaed. Aladdin needed neither whip nor spur to-set out of tho v.;ay in fact, ho gave such a bound that he almost unseated mey and simply flew tor about SO to 40 yards befort I cpnld get the least control over him Glancing over my shoulder to find "put what was happening,, I was horrified to see gun-bearers -•>--'--•-- wiMlv for the trees, mules cares riderless through the hush. Si standir weaponless shouting for his rifle, andhorror of horrors—the infuriated rhino rushing headlong on to Mrs S * who was seated on the ground witui nothing in her hand save an cnen umbrella T gave her up for lost, as I knew'wo oouM do nothing i„ tbno *, £™ h ™ : £f™h at I' h ' S Critical -moment "she did not lose her nerve but 'shooed' thq umhrolla right in the face of the on°nd uLv™*!' ™* extraordlnPrv £nd nnejrne.nted .-..ppn.rition so starred tho rrr«at Wast tlwt instead o* oont-W" mg his oharge n „d tossine- her aloft" away to'the iSf^
Wipifred Cecilia SwatU (9 months) suffered greatly while teething last year, sp her mother gave her SCOTT'S Emulsion. "After taking the first bottle Of SCOTTS," writes Mr*. Bernard Swatts, 24 Bridge Street. Port Melbourne, Victoria (August, 1908), *she had greatly, improved, and she is mow cutting her teeth without any trouble, and is gaining In strength and putting on flesh rapidly. She looks the picture of health, and I have no difficulty in getting her to take SCQTPS." The SCOTT'S Emulsion post-bag last, year brought. this fetter among many hundred* aJJII containing inew records of cures by SCQTTS.EmuI. «ion; cures that other preparations)and all other emulsions, failed to secure'
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14141, 26 February 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
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