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Old and Young Hippopotami

about as much injury as a boy's sling; it of necessary delay for the hunt. When was perfect accuracy of firing, for ten undisturbed by foreign sounds, they contimes in succession the bullets struck the gregate in shallow water on the sand bars, tops of their heads between the ears. One with the fore half of their bodies exposed old fellow, with the look of a sage, was to the warm sunshine, and are in appeartapped close to the right ear by one of ance, when thus somnolently reposing, these bullets. Instead of submerging very like a herd of enormous swine. himself as others had done, he coolly When startled by the noise of an intruder, turned round his head, as if to ask, "Why they plunge hastily into the depths, lashthis waste of valuable cartridges on us?" ing the waters into a yellowish foam, and 君 scatter themselves below the surface, tious scrutiny around them; when thus, when presently the heads of a few re- you see but their forehead, and as they appear, snorting the water from their hastily submerge again, it requires a steady nostrils, to take a fresh breath and a cau- wrist and a quick hand to shoot them.