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of a tree in order that it may keep a good lookout 

 for trouble. While it dozes it continually shoots 

 out its long slender tongue that is narrow and curved 

 so that a pencil could scarcely be inserted in it. 



Not long ago a giraffe killing was witnessed from 

 the windows of one of the trains on the railway 

 running from Mombasa to Nairobi. Apparently 

 the noise of the train hastened the attack of the 

 lions and gave the giraffe some sense of the danger 

 she was in. At any rate they seemed to rush in 

 with less assurance than usual. The giraffe at once 

 put up the best defense of her child she could by 

 kicking out right and left with her forefeet, but not 

 abandoning it. The train stopped to give the 

 passengers a chance to watch the spectacle of this 

 cruel and one-sided combat. 



Undaunted by the roars of the lions an American 

 newspaper reporter at this point sprang from his 

 coach and rushed out, imstrapping his camera as he 

 ran stimibling over the dry hard ground. Cries of 

 warning by the train crew, who knew only too well the 

 peril in which the tenderfoot was placing himself, did 

 not deter him. As so often happens in dealing with 

 wild beasts the very boldness of the man unnerved 

 the lions. At the photographer's approach they 

 made off leaving their wounded victim to escape in 

 another direction. But she did not run far; for her 

 little fellow stood ther6 where she had left him, help- 



