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Hunters Chasing a Herd of Giraffes

shall not soon forget the wild, agonized, and more of something else-horsey, I pleading sort of expression in that poor should say. But I did not greatly enjoy brute's large, dilated eyes, as it bent up the strange new meal-I could not exactly its long neck to gaze at us in fear and pain. forget the last glance of those dying eyes. ""Shoot it through the head; put it out Long before we left the spot many natives of pain,' I said; but, for my part I did from neighboring kraals, attracted, like not feel inclined to face those big and vultures, to the feast, were squatted very sorrowful eyes, now fast dimming with happily around the carcasses, lighting the shadow of death. After all, it is a fires, and stuffing away as though it was cruel thing, this slaughtering of God's the first meat they had ever eaten in creatures. My friend relieved it from their lives."

The fact that these animals have con- eases as destroy the lives of human be. sumption of the lungs show how closely ings. The Giraffe is far from being a allied some of the lower animals are to hardy animal and never thrives when man. They can be afflicted by such dis- away from its native haunts.