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she turned, and made a second charge, cutting his leg from the 

 knee to the hip with her horn, and knocking him over with a blow 

 on the shoulder from her forefeet. She might easily have com- 

 pleted her revenge by killing him on the spot, but she left him, and 

 rushing into a neighboring thicket, began to plunge about and snort, 

 permitting her victim to make his escape. 



RHINOCEROS ATTACKED A BOY. 



In the course of the day the same beast attacked a half-cast 

 boy who was in attendance on Mr. Andersson, and would probably 

 have killed him had she not been intercepted by the hunter, who 

 came to the rescue with his gun. After receiving several bullets, 

 the rhinoceros fell to the ground, and Mr. Andersson walked up 

 to her, put the muzzle of his rifle to her ear, and was just about to 

 pull the trigger, when she again leaped to her feet. He hastily 

 fired and rushed away, pursued by the infuriated animal, which, 

 however, fell dead just as he threw himself into a bush for safety. 

 The race was such a close one, that as he lay in the bush he could 

 touch the dead rhinoceros with his rifle, so that another moment 

 would probably have been fatal to him. 



Each succeeding day of the stay of the Roosevelt party at the 

 ranch of Captain Richard Attenborough was spent in the hunt for 

 big game. Under his advice the likely haunts of the most valuable 

 specimens were sought out and splendid results were obtained. 

 While here Kermit Roosevelt, much to the joy of his delighted 

 father, bagged a cow hippopotamus. His success in having been 

 fortunate enough to have secured one of these monstrous beasts 

 as an evidence of his prowess with the rifle was a new and thrilling 

 experience to Kermit. He seemed, in his pride, to have grown at 

 least a foot in stature after the feat had been accomplished, while 

 his father took even more delight in the performance than did 

 his son. 



While hunting near the Attenborough estate one day. Colonel 

 Roosevelt succeeded in bringing down another gnu, or wildebeeste. 

 This one proved to be a fine specimen whose acquisition was heartily 

 welcomed by the entire party, being borne into camp in the most 



