The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-09-25

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His hot breath blew upon my face
one Of his front feet just missed my
/ head, and his hind one actually trod
upon the loose part ct my trousers and
plnched little bit OF my skin.
/ saw him pass over me, lying as
was upon my back, and next second
saw something else.
NV men were a little behind me, and
therefore straight in the path OF the
rhinoceros-
4 One OF them flung himself backward
/ into the bush, and thus avoided him.
| The second, with a wild yell, sprane
| to his feet and bounded like an India
rubber ball right into the aloe bush
| landing well among the spikes
But the third 1t was my friend Goge
could not by any means get away
He managed to gain his feet, and
that was all.
The rhinoeeros was charging, with
his head low
His great horn passed between Co
bots legs, and feeling something on his
nose, he jerked it MP.
Away went Gobo high into the air.
He turned a complete somersault at
the apex Of the curve, and as he did 50
| E caught sight OF his face.
1t was gray with terror. and his
mouth was wide open.
Down he came right on TO the great
beasts rump, and that broke his fall
But. luckily for him, the rhinoceros
never turned.
He crashed straight through the aloe
bush, only missing the man who had
jumped into it by about a yard.
Then followed a complication.
The sleeping buffalo on the farther
side of the bush, hearing the noise,
sprang to his feet, and for Il second,
not knowing what to do, stood still.
At that instant the huge rhinoceros
hlundered right upon him, and get
ting his horn beneath his stomach,
gave him such a fearful dig that the
buffalo was turned over on to his back,
while his assailant went a most amaz-
ing cropper over his carcass.
In another moment, however, he was
up, and wheeling round to the left,
crashed through the bush downhill to-
ward the open country.
Instantly the whole place became
alive with alarming sounds.
In every direction troops of snort
ing buffalo charged through the for
est, wild with fright, while the injured
bull on the farther side Of the bush
began to below like mad thing.
/ lay quite still for moment de-
voutly praying that none Of the flying
buffalo would come my way.
Then, when the danger lessened. !
got or to my feet, shook myself and
looked around.
One of my boys-he who had thrown
himself backward into the bush-was
already half way up tree. Ii heaven
had been at the top of it he could not
have climbed quicker.
Gobo was lying close to me. grooming
vigorously, but, as suspected, quite
unhurt, while from the aloe bush into
which No. had bounded like tennis
ball came a succession Of the most
piercing yells.
I looked, and saw that the nnfortu-
nate fellow was in very tight place.
A great spike of aloehad run through
the back of his skin waist belt, though
without piercing his flesh, in such a
fashion that it was impossible for him
to move, while within six feet of him
the injured buffalo bull, thinking no
doubt that he was the aggregsor, bel
lowed and ramped to get at him, tear
ing at the thick aloes with his great
horns.
That no time was to be lost if
wished to save the mans life was very
clear.
SO, seizing my eight-bore, which was
fortunately uninjured, took pace to
the left, for the rhinoceros had en-,
larged the hole in the bush, and aimed
at the point of the buffalo's shoulder.
for on account Of the position could
not get a fair side shot for the heart.
AS did SO I saw that the rhinoceros
had given the bull tremendous wound
in the stomach and that the shock Of
the encounter had put his left hind leg
out of joint at the hip.
/ fired, and the bullet striking the
shoulder, broke it, and knocked the
buffalo down.
knew that he could not get up any
more, because he was now injured fore
and aft, SO. notwithstanding his terrific
bellows. scrambled around to whore
heswas.
There he lay, glazing furiously, and
tearing up the soil with his horns.
Stepping up to within two yards Of
him, ! aimed at the vertebrate Of bis
neck ana fred.
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