St Nicholas [serial] . ring the mouth of the V,amid a great yelling and clashingof spears. At sight of the steadily narrow-ing V, the animals in front halt,suspecting the trap; but the beastsin the rear force those in frontforward, while the white mensrifles and the redoubled yells ofthe savages send the last beastsinto the stockade, the blacks, pant-ing, bruised, and all but exhausted,leaping over the bodies of animalsmaimed or killed in the mad fightfor safety. In the old days the Kafirs simplyturned loose, and after the trap-per helped himself they killed andate what beasts remained in the
St Nicholas [serial] . ring the mouth of the V,amid a great yelling and clashingof spears. At sight of the steadily narrow-ing V, the animals in front halt,suspecting the trap; but the beastsin the rear force those in frontforward, while the white mensrifles and the redoubled yells ofthe savages send the last beastsinto the stockade, the blacks, pant-ing, bruised, and all but exhausted,leaping over the bodies of animalsmaimed or killed in the mad fightfor safety. In the old days the Kafirs simplyturned loose, and after the trap-per helped himself they killed andate what beasts remained in the in-closure. But the modern trapperpermits no such waste. He choosesfor himself the finest maimed or injured he orderskilled for use of the Kafirs, and hedesignates which of the otherbeasts captured they may remaining animals, not justthen needed, he prudently turns loose to increase animal trapper of to-day the jungle is his ownand multiply in the wilderness—for to the wild- wild-animal WITH ONE MIGHTY UPWARD TOSS OF THE PONDEROUS HEAD, THE ANI-MAL COULD SEND A CANOE TWENTY FEET HIGH OUT OF THE WATER.
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