THE LION IN ITS WILD STATE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 30 December 1909, Page 2077

THE LION IN ITS WILD STATE

sd \pjn ■galfoAaini e'suo<- «} 15 $!,]$ 'T"1^!;!: ; „ '-',''' alni'th^swild sfeajt-^iPn.^r^ldon^eesi;^!|libn'J'ei|her 'in 1' lrepqse ; or majestically alert. A glimpi^lJbhiß^uit^ijiti!maV>get--'bfr-:-< him^^ta^ding^mjtgnjficen-tLy ji"gJ:(ir^yKeh suddenly distuibed in early morningaFTiisTclll 6f-^yqcmghKtla'?l3t^QtC§el3qmJ-'?l3t^QtC§el3qmJ-' if it has been given to a man^p^*^tph^qiifei^'hlmSelf'iino'b-'l' served, gazi«gjj%om an emiSMce;^A^^hj^;r|^a^zii{g,4i'erd t-, But the lion^is a nocturnal extra^" ordinr&itV cagjeuaitgr titselfj' lijuyisiblfe ' iri^.dim^Bghi']', ■, ManP# spo^^taSwa «falSatined j|o •bhe^eiplejpifin'ce'i!jtJf|f^eing|H'j unable to-sec a lion on a mgh^mdtji;all]bb^fcher/d^^j|^^ii;^niii! it was sOjSgp/g'JSgfJJs breaijhuMi^^^&inly'^afi^le^H^^ many a native of Africa has-faJUSLJa^l^^lo"Bbhe®uddelS i -o"n^e slaueht xf^whaLlW^H^passedzrdtzna^aw^eetffaw-ayjJbe-took^, to be oiflpM'glallSjSaSor the~b"lsrßp*sjnlo^®kß^fi^yg^ by a tussock of grass. - '"•---=*^=ir?.=B£^t The literature of big game shooting contains perhaps no incident more blood-curdling than the experience of

iln el ull^njf I^T wlieH"tilir^ 8 he was «st&lkijtig_a nippopßi^oial. atJJigS., xounflJLtlial *$_ lion was in turn stalking them. By chance the gun-bearer noticed that a bush behind them hatf a, queer way of .being always.^, jafeaut the same djfertanee~lhn>*4jheir reanSG 'gfflfepi^Bft'fl^iliS''* they in *halr it (Seally-.was a - H^^^^jl(Fitself again behind them. the hunted hunters made their.way back to camp, nippbpotami having ceased to interest them. 1! 18 1! 16 atglsfeMoßyl^boM^O one who fled or sued he will chase you.- Moreover, that-full-grown men only "* -were~his-enemies7-that~he-w-ould~noir-harm~babies; But — in, the lion house one may. see any day the eyes which look soj indifi&r^eni% ojiOTtke^ methj jtnoWwomen who cpme^whd°^p before tire £i^es^ij|ht \&| wrlh^middej^s^ivag^y ts^dnT© small child x6adles ElSldn« acrd 9 ss ra the floor. * 'tHie Hoif has that men and W6ffleiki.MWJ!3o£LS£Qr him, but this smaller creature —nice^ajijfcelojße si^ygsofifc^ndjjhelpless —pre- • sents itself to the ,