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The "spear" method is that employed by natives, 

 who, armed with spear and shield, surround a lion 

 and then kill it with their spears. They invariably 

 succeed, but not until a few of the spear-bear- 

 ers are more or less Fletcherized by the lion. This 

 method does not appeal to those who wish to get 



The Tree Method 



home to tell about it, and need not be considered at 

 length in any correspondence course. 



The tree method is comparatively simple. You 

 build a platform in a tree and place a bait near it. 

 Then you wait through the long, silent watches of 

 the night for Felis Leo to appear. The method 

 has few dangers. The chief one lies in falling 

 asleep and tumbling out of the tree, but this is 

 easily obviated by making the platform large 

 enough for two or three men, two of whom may 



