Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . are small but its mouth is enormous. It feeds chiefly on thegrasses and weeds growing in the water. The hippos legs are short but itcan run quite fast. Its toe nails are shaped like a chisel which enables it toclimb up the slippery river banks. A certain hunter tells a story of surprising a hippo asleep in the shadeof some bushes. The creature was so alarmed that it rushed away as quicklyas it could and plunged off a bank twenty feet high mto the river making atremendous splash. In any country where hippos are not constantly huntedthey will come
Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . are small but its mouth is enormous. It feeds chiefly on thegrasses and weeds growing in the water. The hippos legs are short but itcan run quite fast. Its toe nails are shaped like a chisel which enables it toclimb up the slippery river banks. A certain hunter tells a story of surprising a hippo asleep in the shadeof some bushes. The creature was so alarmed that it rushed away as quicklyas it could and plunged off a bank twenty feet high mto the river making atremendous splash. In any country where hippos are not constantly huntedthey will come out into the meadows to feed and wander far afield. Theyare not often attacked by other creatures for they are big and powerful andowing to their thick skins very difficult to wound. Besides they stay wherethe ground is marshy and that makes an unsafe battle field. The native hunters are wonderfully expert in killing the hippos. Theusual method is for two men to go together armed with lances which have a HIPPOPOTAMUS HUNTING ,,»^:!9SvS!^
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