82 JUJA FARM; HIPPO AND LEOPARD 
Kermit Roosevelt and the leopard 
From a photograph by IV. A 7 McMillan 
But the leopard did not wait to be driven. Without any 
warning, out he came and charged straight at Kermit, who 
stopped him when he was but six yards off with a bullet 
in the forepart of the body; the leopard turned, and as he 
galloped back Kermit hit him again, crippling him in the 
hips. The wounds were fatal, and they would have knocked 
the fight out of any animal less plucky and savage than the 
leopard; but not even in Africa is there a beast of more 
unflinching courage than this spotted cat. The beaters 
were much excited by the sight of the charge and the way 
in which it was stopped, and they pressed jubilantly for¬ 
ward, too heedlessly; one of them, who was on McMillan’s 
side of the thicket, went too near it, and out came the 
wounded leopard at him. It was badly crippled or it would 
have got the beater at once; as it was, it was slowly over¬ 
taking him as he ran through the tall grass, when McMillan, 
standing on an ant heap, shot it again. Yet, in spite of 
