ON SAFARI. RHINO AND GIRAFFE 



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time I made up my mind I would get up close enough; but 

 Tranquillity did not quite like the look of the thing ahead 

 of him. He did not refuse to come up to the giraffe, but he 

 evidently felt that, with such an object close by and evident 

 in the landscape, it behooved him to be careful as to what 



A young bull giraffe, shot by Mr. Roosevelt at Kilimakiu 

 From a photograph by Edmund Helle* 



might be hidden therein, and he shied so at each bush we 

 passed that we progressed in series of loops. So off I jumped, 

 throwing the reins over his head, and opened fire once more; 

 and this time the great bull went down for good. 



Tranquillity recovered his nerve at once and grazed 

 contentedly while I admired the huge proportions and 

 beautiful coloring of my prize. In a few minutes Captain 

 Slatter loped up, and the gun-bearers and saises followed. 



