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Lions
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(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)
"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.
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― West with the Night
― West with the Night
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None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.
He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all free creatures, and so he was allowed his moment. It was hardly a glorious moment.
The two men who shot him were indifferent as men go, or perhaps they were less than that. At least they shot him without killing him, and then turned the unsconscionable eye of a camera upon his agony. It was a small, a
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― West with the Night
― West with the Night
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