WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



to get it out, but failed. He looked and wondered, 

 then tried again. He wanted that cherry. He made 

 several efforts, and after failure sat down like Robert 

 Bruce to think. Looking down, he spotted the leg 

 bone of a chicken on my friend's plate, and almost 

 at once picked it up and put the knuckle end into 

 the bottle. Then, tipping the bottle, he carefully 

 withdrew both bone and cherry. My friend, who 

 had had twenty years' experience in the country, 

 remarked : " Kearton, there is not a native in Central 

 Africa who would have thought of doing that." 



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