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Deep in the African jungle, the natives halted sharply, stiffened, passed the word. A leopard. Stalking began. Stewart Edward White was in the lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing...
...outskirts of a parade ground were thousands of Zulu tribesmen. In the centre were 5,000 warriors, naked except for loincloths of leopard skin. On their left arms they carried shields, in their right hands their famous assagais (spears). On their heads were enormous spreading headdresses of black feathers. They began a kind of dance, worked themselves up through weird contortions to a "terrific frenzy" that was accompanied by blood-curdling yells and "dirgelike singing of the women." The visit of the Prince had the effect of healing a long-standing breach between the Usutu (Royalists) and the Mandhlakazi...
...supreme reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth; no clown breathes the naughty story he will not tell the crowd into the leopard's sullen ear, most earnestly hoping that the creature will not take offense. The baleful tigers, too, are gone. Many marveled at this. "Who," they asked, "has at last discerned that the interest attending the feats of the clown and the lady rests on the expectation, nay, the hope, that they will...
...hundred African lions, 40 Bengal tigers, 20 leopards, 100 pumas, 150 black bears, 1,000 buffaloes, 500 elk, 500 deer, 400 wild boars, 400 peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was not the handbill of a bigger and better circus nor a page from Livy, but the proposed stock list of the Pacific Coast Sportsmen's Club, Inc., of Los Angeles. A fortnight ago, a director of that corporation declared it would fence off 50,000 Californian acres...
Lafayette, unbeaten, took on the Leopard's spots and sought to pounce on Penn, also unbeaten. To no avail. A field goal by Chief Leopard Berry was wiped out by a pass by Chief Quaker McGraw, caught and carried by one Joe Laird. The Leopards went back to Easton, dark bruises mingled with their spots and the score: Penn 6, Lafayette 3. The Quakers rejoiced in being the only unbeaten, untied Eastern team of the season, Pittsburgh having tied Penn's nearest rival, Syracuse...