Weighing a Lioness 



A MAN who has shot but a dozen or a score of these 

 various animals, all put together, is not entitled to 

 express any but the most tentative opinion as to their 

 relative prowess and ferocity; yet on the whole it seems 

 to me that the weight of opinion among those best fitted 

 to judge is that the lion is the most formidable opponent 

 of the hunter, under ordinary conditions. 



— Theodore Roosevelt in Scribner's Magazine. 



