MR. ROOSEVELT AND THE GIRAFFE.
+ HOW SHE WAS PELTED WITH STICKS. When -J was within forty yards, it plain sight, away ■ from cover, she opened her eyes and looked drowsilj at me ; .but I st.ood motionless, anc she dozed off again. This time walked up to within ten feet of her. Nearer I did not care to venture, as giraffe strike and kick very Jiard, anc moreover, occasionally strike with the head, the blow seemingly not being delivered with the knobby, skincovered horns, but with the front teeth of the lower jaw. She waked, looked at me, and then, rearing slightly, struck at me with her left fore-leg, the blow, of course, falling short. I laughed and leaped back and the other men ran up shouting. But the giraffe would not run away. She stood within twenty feet of us, looking at us peevishly, and occasionally moving her- lips at us, a: if she were making a face. We kept close to the tree, so as to dodge round it, under the branches, if she came at us ; for we would have been most reluctant to shoot lisr. I threw a stick at her, hitting her in the side, but she paid no attention ; and when Pakhari came behind her with a stick she turned sharply on him, and he made a prompt retreat. Wo were laughing a nd talking all the time. Then we pelted her with sticks and clods 0 f earth, and, after having thus stood within twenty feet of us for three or four minutes, she cantered slowly off for fifty yards, and then walked away with leisurely unconcern.
She was apparently in the best of health and in perfect condition. She did- net get our wind, but her utter indifference to the close presence ol four men is inexplicable.—' 'Africa? Game Trails."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 489, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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307MR. ROOSEVELT AND THE GIRAFFE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 489, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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