Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ded their rifles, not knowing what might turn up, and keptwatch. Nothing happened for a couple of hours and they were just aboutto give it up and go to bed when the cattle became more and more uneasy,until with a loud roar a lion sprang over the fence. The cattle stampeded atonce, but the lion seized a calf in its jaws and got away safely with it beforethe ranchmen could do anything to prevent it. Cattle karals are never free very long from such attacks, for the temptat-ion of so many fat helpless beasts together is too great for any lion. It is almost impossible to trap a lion, for it will never enter any cage tosecure a bait no matter how hungry it is ; nor will it cross pitfalls, and no steeltrap was ever made that will hold an enraged lion. In fact, among animalsthe lions sight and smell are excellent, and that is saying a good deal. Sir Samuel Baker tells a story of his killing a large deer and leaving itwhere it had fallen until daylight. Early the next morning, taking his chief
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A LION AND ITS QUARRY. ALL ABOUT LIONS huntsman with him, he went to the place where the body had been left, andfound that it had vanished. The ground all about was covered with thefoot-prints of a lion. They followed the tracks until they came to a cavewith a narrow opening. They crawled in on hands and knees, pushing theirrifles in front of them. As they could smell flesh they correctly surmisedthat they were literally in a den of lions. Suddenly they found themselvesface to face with a magnificent lion. The animal glanced at them in surprise,and with a deafening roar vanished. The hunters found that there was asecond outlet to the cave. The half eaten body of the deer was found insidethe cave, and they cut the head off and carried it back as a trophy won from alion in its lair. The tiger would never have been frightened off in thatfashion, but would have stood its ground and attacked its enemies at once. Perhaps the greatest battles lions ever engage in are with the greatCape buffa

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