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"Lions are good sports as well as good sport," he went on, after a reminiscent pause. "They are game, they are courageous, they can take an enormous amount of punishment. They have dignity and a sense of humor.
"A lion will never attack you in the day time unless you annoy him or start something. He will pass you by with dignity, not to say disdain. I have never known a lion to attack in daylight unprovoked. So invariable is this rule that when once a lion seemingly attacked me without cause, I investigated, to lind that the old devil had my entire sympathy.
"I was walking along the edge of a ravine when a lion suddenly charged me from the brush. It was so unusual that when I had shot him I slipped around to see if I could discover what was up. As I reached the far end. I saw a beautiful honess just lea\'ing. The ravine was a dehghtful spot and near the center I found a fat zebra, freshly killed and hardly touched. The old sport had picked out this spot and invited a lady friend to luncheon. No wonder he jumped when I disturbed him. Better men than he have done the same.
"People have the impression that a lion charges in bounds, because when he runs he bounces along the ground. But that isn't true. He charges exactly as a dog goes after a ball. I was attacked by one once and my traveling companion, who had ap analytical mind and a stop watch, was sitting on top of a bluff some distance away. He was too far to give me any assistance, so he took out his watch and timed the bird between a rock and a tree. We reduced it afterward to terms of a hundred yards and discovered he was running in 7 tlat. Which shows that speed is necessary in dealing with them.
T-wo of tKe four lions — martyrs to the fallacy that one man is not equal to four such big kitties. Picture taken at Mr. Whites Burlingame home. At the left — the African Chief and t^vo of his wives, whom he offered to lend to Mr. White on his lion-hunting expedition.
"If you get the jump on a lion you can embarass and bluff him out of everything. He is not afraid, only annoyed."' (I was willing to take his word for it.) "Of course at night in Africa no man who doesn't court death will step outside the light of his camp fire.
"There was a fellow in one part of the country who was known as 'the friend of the lion.' He had succeeded in getting certain game laws passed in their favor. He had a motorcycle and while he was riding it across the veldt one day he accidentally ran over some good old lion's tail. You have doubtless seen a dog chase a motorcycle, but (Continued on page i2g )
Mr. White with R. J. Cunninghame, the famous lion-hunter and guide of the Roosevelt expedition.
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