The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-12-01
FIGHT FOR LIFE
WITH L|0NESS
Transport Agent Grasps Beasts
Tongue During Battle, But Is
Eventually Killed.
HUNTERS TELL WEIRD TALES
One Explains Simple Method of
Making Animals Sneeze Themselves
to Death-Story About the
Roosevelt Expedition.

London.-F'rom Nairobi, East Africa
says writer in the London Daily
Mail, comes thrilling story of the
death of transport agent named
Hopper, who, pinned down by a
lioness he had wounded, made q
desperate bid for victory by putting
both hands into the animals mouth
and gripping its tongue.
Africa is a paradise for the lion
hunter and the literature of the chase
is almost endless. Not all lion
hunters are strictly truthful, however.
"For instance, in a remote African
village" says the writer, 81 once came
across a deeply tanned prospector-
hunter, who swore that his favorite
method of hunting lions was to get the
animals to sneeze themselves to death.
1T Is quite simple he said In
lion country you build a little arch of
stone, just big enough TO allow the
lion to enter with comfort. But you
must take care to build 1t of jagged
stones and to see that the center stone
of the arch Is a particularly Jagged
one.
Il
or some other toothsome creature from
the HONS point of view You drag the
corpse under the arch, pepper it
heavily and then retire to your tent
to sleep.
Sneezes Self to Death.
SIN the night the lion comes
creeps under the arch to his feast, gets
his nose filled with pepper, and has an
overpowering inclination to sneeze. He
sneezes, and in the act throws up his
head and dashes his brains out on the
center jagged stone of your arch
II do not vouch for the truth Of
that story"
A party of men trekking in Rhodesia
In an OK wagon heard a commotion
one night among their tethered oxen, |
and rushing toward the spot pumped |
about a dozen shots into the heaving |
mass from a distance of, say, forty |
yards.
The mass diminished and they adj
ribIy mauled by lions.
They "dosed" the corpse with strych-
nine and retired to their camp. They |
heard the lions busy at the carcass
all night, and in the morning they
found that the dead OK had practically
but lying near the spot
we're 1--WE full grown iions-two males
and three females-all poisoned
That was a very considerable bag
got by illegitimate means, but here
IS the true story of better bag got
IL al. -
example of sportsmen's
uck:
When the late President Roosevelt
md his son Kermit went to British
East Africa, in 1900, they were ac-
on their hunting trip by
he late F. G. Selous, one of the
greatest hunters that ever lived.
Roosevelt's Luck.
Selous was particularly anxious to
secure a specimen of the .fcast African
lack -maned lion, but on the whole
rip he never even got a shot at one.
But Theodore Roosevelt got three and
Kermit Roosevelt eight-and neither
# them had ever been on an African
anne hunting expedition before
Some years ago party of Greeks
rekking through Portuguese Zambes1a
we're followed for days by quaint old
on, who took one of their donkeys
ach night until only one of the whole
cam was left.
This donkey the terrified Greeks
ere determined to retain at all costs.
When they made their camp that
Ight they built around it a great !
ockade of bushes and thorns, and in
le center of it they tethered the sole {
lrviving donkey to their tent pole.
ut Notwithstanding these precau
ons. that night the pertinacious old
On got the last donkey. e
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