The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-04-03
Hoe to Frighfen a Zion.

lie was out ouce hon shooting in Kat.
tiawar. In some parts of the district,
where it is tolerably open, the sportsmen
used to follow the game on horseback,
ride up within range, and then dismount
to get shot, unless the beast were steady
enough to stand fire from their backs
After the shot they quickly remounted
and galloped off. In fact, something in
the manner that the African way of con-
Quoting the sport is described On one
occasion my friend had turned up a couple
Of fnIl-grown lions, and was following them
on the plain. He managed to get within
range, and, a. his horse would not stand
quite enough for him to fire of his back,
Jumped IF, and threw the bride over
his arm; by some chance, however, omit.
ting to slip his hand through it. Wrll,
he got fair shot and hit one of the lions
hard; but the noise startled the horse, and
as there was nothing to check it, away it
gallopcd, leaving my friend Standing
IL" fred the second barrel, and then had
the horror of seeing the wounded lion
come charging down towards him, all head
tail, and legs, and rosring tremendously.
His rife was empty and unless, and of
course there was no time to load. His
first impulse was naturally TO bolt as bard
ms he could, aad accordingly away he
stumped for the nearest tree. But long
before he could reach it the roars came
closer and cluser behind him, and he felt
that he had not the slightest chance of
reoching the tree before being overtaken
by that angry bru'e. Still he sped on
with the instinct of self.preservation; but
the lion was fast closing with him. What
;ould he do? There was no time to be
lost In few more bounds his head
might be crushed 10 by the blow of a
paw, or his man4lrd limbs be quiveriug
in the ANIMALS relentless jaws. It sudden
ly occurred TO him to try and startlc the
beast by some unusual combination of
forn ind unds. His resolve was i'm
II diately taken, and acted upoL without
delay. Stopping short suddenly in his
race, With his back still towards the
charging lion, now drawing very close.
he tucked his head and body until he
oked at it reversedIy from between his
legs, and in that position made some of
the most bidaouS faces, and gave utter
ance to some of the most appalling yells,
aud, at the same time, gesticulalei wildly
with his arms. This was metamorpho-
sis for which the savage beast was quite
unprepared. just before there had been
a runaway man, l'gging it as had as he
could go in trout; but now there was a
fearful, shapclts, creature stationary and
unyelding, and bowling III the most aw,
ful way, quite beyond all lion experience.
The brute was staggered, and hesitated
in his headlong career, then pulled up
and looked; advanced step, and looked
more closely: heard a frantic yell Of extra
power-the last despairing effort of the
hunter; turned, and with lower tail trotted
of to join his companion, now disappear
ing in the distance. After short space
my friend arose, almost purple in the face
from the violence of bis exertions and
the unpleasently low position of his head,
but much gratifed, and chuckling greatly
at the success of his ingenious russo The
Eastern Hunters,