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turned on him, but with two lions a few feet away 
there was not a tendency to advance with that im¬ 
petuous dash that one would like to see in a moving 
picture of oneself. Anyway, I tried to keep up an 
appearance of advancing without actually cover¬ 
ing much territory. 
One of my gunbearers suddenly clutched my 
arm and pointed into the reeds. There, only a few 
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feet away, was the tawny figure of a lion, either 
lying down or crouching. I fired and nearly blew 
its head off. It was the one I had wounded a few 
minutes before. 
There was still the other lion in the reeds. So I 
joined the beaters while Stephenson came out and 
took a commanding position at the side of the reeds. 
In a moment or two there was a tawny flash and the 
lion was seen as it broke from the reeds and sprang 
