The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-21

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"Ask Tippoo lib" ..t
"Why Tippoo Tib?"
"Nearly ate him once" -. '-
you did? How was it you let him
go?' . ''....' ", :.
IRAN too FAST .E4 -. =,
"Come, do wake up. The keeper says
you've been asleep all day. What was
him?' ~ =,
"Well,' said the ragged animal, with
a gesture that looked uncommonly like
wink, she told Stanley that he was hunt
ing me- Funny hunting, Ell? He was al
ways ahead and was behind him.
And at the recollection of the hunting
the lion roared aloud. you've never
hunted lions, supposc?'
ooh! it's great sport, I can tell you,
when there are only Arabs and slaves"
'Tell me what happens"
"Why, you see, whenever we find
there are lot of men collecting in one
place without a regular camp, or cattle
or goats or women, we guess there is go
ing to be a lion hunt.
as can. and lie around in some rough
ground where there are plenty of melons
to hide i'll and thorn bushes, and we wait,
and soon we get hungry.
''By and by the men come and they
find one of us. And then they post them
slaves all about and signal to each other
with their arms or clothes to show where
the lion is. and all the time we lie low
and watch them watching it.
'Then some slaves are sent in with
dogs to turn us out. They beat drums
and call us names. But we don't take
any notice of that.
''Then they send in more, and some
of them have guns which they fire off.
But we all keep quiet till the lion they
are watching rushes out. -
Sometimes they have hit him with
bullet, or perhaps he is only too angry
to keep quiet any longer, and out he
comes with roar, and then the fun be-
gins All the dogs bark, and all the
slaves shout, and the Arabs begin firing
all together.
''That is our time. Out we rush, roar
dust and what with the noise, it's really
impossible to say what happens. But we
knock over as many slaves as we can,
and the rest all run away, and all of a
sudden, just as quickly as it began, the
scrimmage is over.
''The dogs have all vanished, the
Arabs are on their horses, riding round
slaves are running as fast as their legs
will take them out of sight. Then we
all hide again among the wild melons
and the thorn bushes and if lion has
been killed the Arabs drive some slaves
back and they tie it to pole and carry
it away to their camp.
1T always ends in the same way
There are about 400 of them and they
get perhaps one lion among them and
there are five or six of us and we get
slave or two apiece. For the Arabs do
not trouble about the slaves
"Then you don't often catch any of
the Arabs?'
mo. They keep near their horses; as
soon as they have fired they mount and
fire off-just as Tippoo lib did, but (he
the tip of his white burnouse streaming
out behind him as he rode actually
Tipped my nose"
''But travellers say that you run away
from men a,, when you meet them. How
th;ss rav }aa;s Say say o, all sorts of funny
That's true. But don't you run
well, you see their habits are so diff
ferent from ours. We like to sleep all
day and hate any exertion after our
meal, for we only eat once, at night
and they are most active after eating,
which they. seem to do pretty nearly
every day, judging. from the number of
times they stop and light fires and cook.
I've often smelled them cooking.
'As soon as they're done they get up
and go marching on. Then they meet
u.s., We are sleepy and lazy. They are
vide awake and all agog. So we get out
Of their way: I know! l never felt in
clined for scrimmaging in broad daylight
YOU" 49, ...s~
swell, perhaps not;
II should think not Now, if travel,
ers would only travel by night when we're
all up and hungry, they'd find we wouldn't
run away. should think not, indeed.
i Sc you see it's all /" matter of habit isn't
"But you have your turn when the
travellers make their camps for the night?"
Rather! And you can't imagine what
fun we have sometimes in camp with
the. goats all tied together in punches
with ropes and the cattle tethered to the
wagons: On a dark night, with a high
call it, G Picnic yes ie There's notS Hns
| like so much as goats. They're de,
liciOus."
but why don't the travellers fire at
ooh! They do. But they can't see,
and it does not do us any harm: l think
it's our roaring that. upsets them. We
we get inside camp; and I've nearly
choked myself with trying to eat and roar
at the same time-and laughing.
"Ah! It was goats that did it. /
never could resist goats. g ! !. T 49,
Una afternoon there was great hula
bailoo close to where ! was lying asleep.
Il got UP and looked out, and there was
q crowd of slaves making an encampment
| never saw such a big one. And they
had got a regular herd Of cattle with
them, and, oh! ever SO many goats.
so I laid low and waited till it was
dark, and then out / went. y. 1t was a
lovely night, a little rain falling. and as
the camp. till I came to where the goats
were, and that was enough for me- /
never looked to see where I was jumping,
but over | went-plump into pitfall
that the slaves had dug i'll front of the
goats: It served me right for being such
fool. !, re-. s. $ ..:>s.,, ,
with torches and spears and one of them
threw his assegal at me. Yes, that's the
scarand they could have killed me cas-
lily, for couldn't get out. But the
great man came up and the noise all
stopped. -, s.,., =,..,e
travelling. And he wouldn't have me
killed. So they tied me up with ever 50
and carried me off to Zanzibar, and here
l am" ssz 81 Il
well, do you mind it much p
Il can't say I do. OF course, there
are things miss. Oh! it was sport, l
tell you--royal sport--to lie of an even
Ing by the track that led down to the
pool and the moon going in md out Of
gnt1s and antelopes going down 30 warily
s to drink and then to pick ont II FIT