voun K friend 6ob Marshall was picking his 

 way through the South African jungle, when 

 he paused to look upon a striking but charac- 

 teristic scene. 



A beautiful leopard had run a short distance 

 up the sloping trunk of a fallen tree, and then, 

 turning about on a large projecting limb, faced a pack of hyenas that were eager to 

 attack him, but afraid to do so. One rash fellow ventured nigh enough to receive 

 a cuff from the defender's paw which knocked him a dozen feet away and caused 

 him to keep a safe distance thereafter, while the others vre. equally careful to 

 avoid those sharp claws and teeth. 



ii 



