S]PORT IN WAR 

 afterwards discovered, knocking off 

 one of his claws. 



"The lion tossed up his shaggy 

 head and looked at us in dignified 

 surprise. Then I fired and hit him 

 with a leaden bullet from the Lee- 

 Metford. He reeled, sprang round, 

 and staggered a few paces, when 

 Jackson, who was using a Martini- 

 Henry, let him have one in the 

 shoulder. This knocked him over 

 sideways, and he turned about, 

 growling savagely. 



" I could scarcely believe that we 

 had got a lion at last, but resolved to 

 make sure of it ; so, telling Jackson 

 not to fire unless it was necessary 

 (for fear of spoiling the skin with the 

 larger bullet of the Martini), I went 

 down closer to the beast and fired a 

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