218 AFRICAN ADVENTURE STORIES 



and so did I. When we struck the ground and 

 turned to run the two men who had been 

 pushing the car were fully twenty feet ahead 

 of us, for they had taken to their heels the in- 

 stant the rhino appeared. 



"As the huge body of the brute rolled down 

 the bank and onto the track, the car struck it a 

 glancing blow on the side, then left the rails, 

 and ploughed into the bank. The rhino jumped 

 to its feet and, with a toss of its head, attacked 

 the car. Then, seeing us running up the track, 

 it came charging after us. 



"The two boys ahead of me ran up the left 

 side to the top of the bank and I quickly fol- 

 lowed. The rhino kept on after the third boy, 

 who was dashing along the right-hand side of 

 the track. We shouted to him to climb the 

 bank, and he bounded up with the agility of a 

 cat. Below, in the cut, the animal rushed by 

 us, and it was only ten feet behind the boy when 

 he reached the top of the bank. The bank was 

 low at that point, and the clumsy animal, after 

 slipping and sliding back into the cut several 

 times, succeeded in scrambling up. 



"Meanwhile, the boy had run some distance 

 along the top of the bank and thrown himself 



