. African game trails;. Hunting. 194 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS me with the feehng that Fitzgerald is the major partner in the book we really like. Then there was a book I had not read, Dumas's "Louves de ; This was presented to me at Port Said by M. Jusserand, the brother of an old and valued friend, the French ambassador at Washington—the vice-president of the "Tennis ; We had been speaking of Balzac, and I mentioned regret- fully that I did not at heart care for his longer novels ex- cepting the *'Chou- ans"; and, as John i-£^ Hay once told me, in the eye
. African game trails;. Hunting. 194 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS me with the feehng that Fitzgerald is the major partner in the book we really like. Then there was a book I had not read, Dumas's "Louves de ; This was presented to me at Port Said by M. Jusserand, the brother of an old and valued friend, the French ambassador at Washington—the vice-president of the "Tennis ; We had been speaking of Balzac, and I mentioned regret- fully that I did not at heart care for his longer novels ex- cepting the *'Chou- ans"; and, as John i-£^ Hay once told me, in the eye of all true Balzacians to like the "Chouans" merely aggravates ^, .,, , ,, ., the offence of not lopi (shot by Kermit) From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt llKmg tnC UOVelS which they deem really great. M. Jusserand thereupon asked me if I knew Dumas's Vendean novel; being a fairly good Dumas man, I was rather ashamed to admit that I did not; whereupon he sent it to me, and I enjoyed it to the full. The next day was Kermit's red-letter day. We were each out until after dark; I merely got some of the ordinary game, taking the skins for the naturalists, the flesh for our following; he killed two cheetahs, and a fine maned lion, finer than any previously killed. There were three chee- tahs together. Kermit, who was with Tarlton, galloped the big male, and, although it had a mile's start, ran into it in three miles, and shot it as it lay under a bush. He afterward shot another, a female, who was lying on a stone koppie. Neither made any attempt to charge; the male had been eating a tommy. The lion was with a lioness, which wheeled to one side as the horsemen gal- loped after her maned mate. He turned to bay after a run of less than a mile, and started to charge from a distance of two hundred yards; but Kermit's first bullets mortally. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloratio
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