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until he moved to the next bush, and then got a fine 

 portrait. After this I tossed two very small pebbles to- 

 ward him, not enough to alarm him, but sufficient to 

 cause him to move on. As soon as he was far enough 

 away I climbed out of the ravine and slipped along 

 after. Dogged his footsteps for half a mile, dodging 

 from bush to bush, and occasionally getting some new 

 pose.* At last he emerged on the open plain. I 

 whistled sharply. Instantly he whirled and started to- 

 ward me and I snapped the final film of the roll. De- 

 posited the camera quickly on the ground and gave him 

 a careful shot in the outside of the shoulder. No chance 

 to dodge in the open, and I had no desire for him to 

 close. This turned him at about thirty yards and he 

 went off with a slight flesh wound. 



Nothing remarkable then happened until we were 

 quite near camp. Then I saw a lioness moving across 

 a smaU flat of grass in the valley. Hurried down there, 

 but she had disappeared in a donga where I knew it 

 would be useless to follow her. However, I happened 

 to glance to the right, and there was another loping 

 slowly along about 125 yards away. Opened fire with 

 the Springfield and got in three beautiful shoulder 

 shots you could cover with your hand. This slowed 

 her up. A fourth shot, as she turned, just cut into her 

 tail, saving a miss but doing no damage. She then 



* These pictures did not turn out as well as I had hoped owing to the fact 

 that I had, because of the easterly wind, to take most of them toward an 

 early morning light. 



