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lion, he has taken the skin,' for the skin of a freshly killed 

 antelope, which had been hung up inside the camp, had 

 disappeared altogether. The Kaffir boy, who had been 

 sitting behind the fire, had seen the lion come straight 

 through a hole in the fence close to the dogs, and quite 

 near the horses, and pick up one of the three skins rolled 

 up on the ground. The lion does not seem to have noticed 

 (or smelt) the horses, or they him, which proves that there 



THE LION IN THE CAMP 



is no truth in the story that horses always scent lions 

 from a great distance. 



Notwithstanding all this excitement, Selous, who was 

 very tired, returned, for the third time, to bed, and for a 

 time all was pretty still. Then, again, there was heard 

 the dash of the puppies from outside the camp, and one 

 of the men observed that a lion must be about. On 

 this Selous got up, and looking at the antelope skins 

 discovered that another had been taken away^ So he 



