Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1879 — The Bushman After the Lion. [ARTICLE]

The Bushman After the Lion.

Capt. Ayljvard tells a droll story ot a renconter between a bushman and a lion. The narrator was acquainted with the man, and has no doubt of the truth of the story. The bushm-n, while a long way from his home, was met by a lion. The animal, assured that he had his victim completely in his power, began to sport and dally with him with a feline jocosity which theupoor little bushman tailed to appreciate. ' The lion would appear at a point in the road and leap again into the juDgle, to reappear a little further on. But the bushman did not lose his presence of mind, and presently hit upon a device by which he might possibly outwit his foe. This plan was suggested by the lion’s own conduct. Aware that the brute was ahead of him, be dodged to the right, and feeling pretty sure of the lion’s whereabouisv resotted to the course of ouiet ly watching his movements.,. When the lion discovered that the man had suddenly disappeared from the path, he was a good deal perplexed. He roared with mortifioation, when he espied the bushman peeping at him over jibe grass. The bushman at once changed his position, while the lion stooa irresolute in the path, following with his eye the shifting black man. In another moment the little man rustled the reeds, vanished, and showed again at another point. The great brute was first confused, and then alarmed. It evidently began to dawn upon him that he had mistaken the position of matters, and that he was the hunted party. The bushman, who clearly recognized what was passing in his enemy's mind, did not pause to let the lion recover his startled wits. He began to steal gradually toward the foe, who, now in a complete state of doubt and fear, fairly turned tail and decamped, leaving the plucky and ingenious little bushman master of the situation.— ChanMers' Journal.