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 having great difficulty in getting close enough to be certain of getting him at the first shot. The wilde. beeste are as savage as they are h. ordinately suspicious, so it is moi easy to stalk them. This old bull every time the hunters approached near him, plunged and bucked be- fore starting off on a wild galloI to place further removed from the two strangers. His actions ap- peared to be very ferociously eocen- tric, and the chances of getting him did not appear bright.
 Colonel Roosevelt was unable to get close enough for a shot. Dark ness crept over the veldt, and he gas 1t up. We waited for Colonel Roosevelt and Cunninghame to re- join us, and then we all rode back to camp in silence. Disappointment makes all hunters silent. But ] think that Kermit felt his fathers disappointment more keenly than anyone.
 No one who has not experienced a dinner in camp on the East African plains, With the nights per- feet stiffness broken only now and then by a distant laughter of a hyena or the barking neigh of a zebra close at hand, can really ap- preciate the utter joy of such a meal. It is especially delightful after a tiring day in the saddle or afoot after big game.
 And after dinner comes the time when one gathers round the camp fires, whose flames from the burning logs form all sorts of weird and fan. tastic shapes"in the darkness. Then ones thoughts wander back over the happenings of the day and farther back over adventurous incidents ot other days of hunting, and one drinks to the dregs of the cup of all that is very best in life.
 At Dawson's insistence, Colonel Roosevelt told of a preceding days lion hunt.
 T was in good hands with Pease, r commenced Colonel Roosevelt. 'He knew every likely place for lions ir all the neighborhood. Our first lions were two large cubs, as big as mastiffs, They were found in some bushes near a dry watercourse. could not see them properly, and thought they were full grown beasts l fired at what could see; and then Kermit fired also at a point where the bushes were disturbed. Then they broke cover. Each was badl, wounded, and so we finished them off"
 'Tell them about the two biz liens we got later on that afternoon father" urged Kermit.
 We put up two big lions in an. other dried watercourse." ColoneI Roosevelt continued, land the, crashed off through the thick brush At first we thought they were charg. ing; but they were running away They appeared right in front of me I less than fifty yards away. hi one of them, a big maneless fellow and brought him down with his hint quarters dragging. He endeavorec to face us, with his savage jaws wide open and growing flercely. Kermi and l fired into his chest; and h, died immediately. The other wa! galloping across the plains, so wt mounted and chased him. Finally the lion halted and stood at bay facing us. The grass was too Ions to see him properly after dis mounted"
 And my horse would not let m, shoot" disgustedly exclaimed Ker init.
 That's sol" agreed his father and then he continued his story [" expected the lion to charge any min 'lte. l could hear him growlinl fercely; but l still could not see hin sufficiently well to be sure of m, aim. Suddenly, he turned toward me-and l got my chance. I firet and the lion went down with hi, tore-feet in the air. But he re covered instantly. and faced m, once. more. I sent another bulIe into his shoulders, and it broke hi, back, That made four lions in on, afternoonn
 There was a prolonged silence broken only by the distant roar of { lion hunting in the moonlight, aftel the colonel ceased talking.
 Dawson was first to speak What about the other lions Colonel?"
 Colonel Roosevelt rose, and smiled down on us.
 T think that's. enough for to hight,' he remarked quietly. e want to go out with R. J. at dawr after the wildebeeste bull. I wan that fellow to complete our group.
 CHAPTER V.
 Roose'clt's Crowded Week at
 Nairobi
 Nairibo had been in the throes n great excitement and anticipation fol hVe weeks, for the news had spreat that Theodore Roosevelt was tt spend a week there before proceed Ing on his hunting expedition through the thirst-land to tn, Sotik country.
 | The reception given at Govern ment House by Sir Frederick an, Lady Jackson in honor of CoIone Roosevelt was an interesting affai 1 to the onloOker. The cnnsts nnnso.