was on his legs biting at the spears in his breast. Then Umslopogaas,

who alone did not wait his onslaught, but had stepped aside for his

own ends, uttered a loud cry and drove his assegai into the lion

behind the shoulder, so that with a groan the brute rolled over dead.

Meanwhile, the lioness stood without the fence, the second dead cub in

her mouth, for she could not bring herself to leave either of them.

But when she heard her mate's last groan she dropped the cub and

gathered herself together to spring. Umslopogaas alone stood up to