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front teeth. The shock knocked him down. He got up 
slowly, and growling his displeasure at such treatment, 
they all three went off slowly together. The good man 
thought himself very fortunate, as he was, and took another 
road. A few days later the Kikuyu killed the lion and 
brought in the skull. Strange to say, though the great 
tooth was shattered, the jawbone was not broken. 
