There Was No Stopping
Him, Indeed, Until He Had Reached The Very Top
Of The Tree; And Even Then He Could Scarcely Be
Induced To Come Down Again.
Poor fellow, he
had been thoroughly terrified, and little wonder.
My followers now began to emerge from the
shelter of the various trees and bushes where
they had concealed themselves after their wild
flight from the resuscitated lion, and crowded
round his dead body in the highest spirits. The
Masai, especially, seemed delighted at the way in
which he had been defeated, and to my surprise
and amusement proved themselves excellent
mimics, some three or four of them beginning at
once to act the whole adventure. One played
the part of the lion and jumped growling at a
comrade, who immediately ran backwards just
as I had done, shouting "Ta, Ta, Ta" and
cracking his fingers to represent the rifle-shots.
Finally the whole audience roared with delight
when another bolted as fast as he could to
Roshan Khan's tree with the pseudo lion roaring
after him. At the end of these proceedings up
came Brock, who had been attracted to the place
by the sound of the firing. He was much
astonished to see my fine dead lion lying stretched
out, and his first remark was, "You are a lucky
beggar!" Afterwards, when he heard the full
story of the adventure, he rightly considered me
even more lucky than he had first thought.
Our next business was to go back to the lioness
which I had first shot and left for dead.
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