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decided where to go. That stop was fatal, for Jim 

 grabbed a healthy mouthful near where his tail starts 

 out, and when the lion turned back to slap him, J. B. 

 got him by the back of the scalp, and the rest of the 

 dogs distributed themselves in any vacant spot in the 

 order of their arrival. 



" Pandemonium reigned ! Growls, spits, howls, yelps, 

 rocks rolling, brush cracking, and the excited yells of 

 the men combined, made a conglomeration of sound 

 that must be heard to be appreciated. 'Tenderfoot' 

 stood aghast at the trouble he had turned loose, and 

 begged to be allowed to shoot the lion before he killed 

 all the dogs, but he was cautioned to stand quiet and 

 see the fight of his life, which he sure did ! 



"With Jude and J. B. working at his throat, the lion 

 came to the conclusion that life wasn't worth living. It 

 might be a hard winter, anyhow, and so he gave up the 

 ghost after as game a fight as it was ever my good 

 fortune to see. He was old and mangy, and we con- 

 cluded his hide was not worth taking, so cut off the 

 tip of his tail only." 



Shortly after the lion was killed, the dogs found and 

 treed the lioness and her two kittens. " Puss}'" was in 

 a small sycamore, and a .30 behind the ear killed her. 

 The dogs had already dragged one of the kittens out 

 of a bush and killed it. The other was " roped " from 

 a tree and taken into camp alive. As a rule, when the 

 lion is treed, the hunters approach and shoot him. If 

 wounded, he will fight the dogs and often kills some 

 of them. There is really no danger to the hunters, 

 since the lion always tries to escape. 



President Roosevelt, a few years ago, went to Colo- 



