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nent of the strenuous life, and ex-president of the 
United States. 
If I were writing a thrilling story of adventure 
that is the way this story would begin. But as this is 
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designed to be a simple chronicle of events, it is 
just as well at once to get down to basic facts and 
tell about the Roosevelt elephant hunt, the hyena 
episode, and the pigskin library, together with other 
more or less extraneous matter. 
Colonel Roosevelt, his son Kermit, Leslie Tarl- 
