SPORT IN WAR 

 "Only the one we fired at this 

 morning." 



Whereupon he grimly said, " Oh, 

 I saw him go away up the river when 

 you went down into it. He was a- 

 dragging his hindquarters after him." 



It appeared that the man thought 

 he had been posted to guard against 

 surprise by an enemy, and did not 

 realise that we, being down among 

 the rocks, could not see the lion 

 which was so visible from his look- 

 out place. And so we lost that lion. 



But I had better luck another 

 time. 



It stands thus recorded in my 

 diary : * 



** loth October. — (To be marked 



* Vide " The Matabele Campaign, 1896," 

 same writer. 



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