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When lions break into cattle kraals at night, they never or very 

 seldom spring over the fence even when it is a low one, but 

 work their way through the bottom of the fence. They will 



My best lion 



sometimes walk round and round a stockaded kraal, that one 

 would have expected them to leap over at once without 

 difficulty, and finally effect an entrance by forcing two poles 

 apart and squeezing through. If suddenly disturbed or fired at 



