Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 100
tred the wood in which thelioness and her cubs usually hid themselves; and in thethicket, upon a carefully-arranged heap of leaves, Ifound a small female cub, about one month old, notlarger than a cat. I took it up in my bumoose, car-ried it to the tents, and again went back to the neigh-borhood of… … 78 The Animal Story Book was so dense as to afford me no room to take aimwith my rifle; I had therefore to cut the branches ofthe trees with my double-edged dagger to the extentof tbe length of my rifle. My plan of attack was simple. When the lionessshowed her head between the bushes I intended at…
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