Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-06-14
AN ALGERIAN LION STORY.

AN ALGERIAN LION STORY.
How came to be sitting, in very
good company, onegloriOus September
evening, in the little moOn-lightcd gar
den of the hotel ut Algicrs is neither
here nOl there.
My companions about TIE round
table, which was garnished with slim
bottles, glasses and piles of cigarettes.
were all Frcnchmcn-thrcc old Al
gerlan coIonistS, the fourth an eX-licu-
tenant of the navy who had exchanged
n life on the ocean wave for that of Il
hunter in three-quarters Of the globe.
Before dinner | had picked up in the
salon Du Chailliu's gorilla book. which
| hal never seen before. and my say
ing something about this turned the
conversation in the garden upon wild
beasts and the hunting of them
Some wonderful stories were told,
especially by the cX-sailor, though not
4 bit more wonderful than many ore
hears from old Indian sportsmcn.
For the matter of that the most cx-
traOrdinary sporting story ! ever heard
was told by-Uf all men in the world
Il iarc-huntcr, who capped herewith
Il snakc-and-clcphant narrative. quite
unique of its kind.
Presently short silence, caused by
the mrorking and tasting Of a new
bottle Of Hermitage, was broken by the
eldest of the party, who had not said
much before. He wa, Il roud-loOhinu
man OF fifty, with beard graycr than
his head, and II merry twinkle in his
eye. What ne said | shall rcpcat. for
the sake Of clcarncss, in the first per-
son, Just Us he told the story himself.
"Thc adventure of which am going
to tell YOU, gentlemen, happened to me
u good many years ago. 1t was my
first serious interview with lion. Like
most serious things il had Il comic side,
too.
Il was Young man then, and had
been some half dozen years in Constan.
tine, farming in partnership with u
friend, IN old coloni,t, whose acouain-
tancc had made ON board shin com
ing out from Marseillcs
"Onr bpsinoss w,s c,rr ,rJ oo,,Io
r,isip~. and yo IiJ r.,,, wall inrn,Lcr
until nv nn,tror JioJ ~ f,,,h71. "7 0'nr' 'ni
oftnr tbot 7 tool, . Jisrilo =, ,hn ,la,," ""
tbnngh, | wnmII .nf, NV ~ ,,ro,,I ,"u p"io' IN
in this nroyinrn AIairrs nTyh i"'''" i'.,nrd '.
thr frnntirr and mni ,,r,n, % ~ ,,n,.,.n ="
mont InnJ and mgl,o -, tarn, "f W a. -
"ntfin% nniTh%"r f, ,.;,,n i,, W. W. ~ oo 'o ",
Ihin~g in NV r,Lyonon ~ ,,o.,I ,u "I ~ w. ~ ~
mr,t9ontin%' nYnn,Ii,i.,, .I y" , "T L'2
sh6nIJ s%1 wa far ,ho.o ,ro;,, ""S - h,."n Du'
af ms .n,,y ,''0av "V'u '''''0
" vs.. vs., '' "" - ,o'''' '''''' ~ '''' "'ic'
Flrs'' lIrto was your lluhloie ScrV-
''ht' SccohIly' lhere was my morse Ma
ISGmSo, iS,i! ana !., = peter never looked
thr"uSh prluIc' lie was bred be-
tween a barD sire ana an English
mare belonging TO the colonel OF chaS-
scurS ol whom bought him in town,
when his regiment was going home.
lie stood about liilecn hands two, car
rled inc barD head' ana the rest OF his
Douy was all bone ana muscle. His
temper was MS good as his courage was
high; me he would follow about like u
dog but he had one failing, and that
was an lnsuperablc objection TO the
close proximity OF anything, except one
thing, that stood on four legs. We
all have our peculiarities, and this
was his. Bipcds were all very well,
but multiply the legs by two, and he
let fly Immediately, and never missed
his aim;
Such was Marcngo.
"Thirdly, there was Cognac, the