326 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
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 
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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 
