LION

The chief told me another story about lions. One day other chief, settled far away of our chief, 150 miles away, got out of his home and didn’t come back after sunset. All chiefs had lorries and the missing chief probably had had a damage in his lorry. So, the missing chief was in great danger in the middle of the jungle.

Called, our chief, at sunrise, got a native policeman and started the search. A journey on a land road, on a track, is a tiresome one. Past many hours of slow and difficult driving, the chief saw in the middle of the track, calmly walking, at leisure, a lion. The chief neared the lion with the lorry and the animal hid itself in the shrubs of the track. The chief stopped the lorry and climbed the luggage carrier. In the deep silence of the jungle the chief put one bullet in the gun and, it was when, the gun rang a metallic and loud «click». It was, immediately, seen the lion jumping the shrubs over to the other side of the track and it disappeared!!

Our hero would never face the lion on foot! It’s terribly dangerous! The lion feared the lorry but wouldn’t fear the chief on foot! It would run at him!!!

One bullet would never, never stop the lion!!!