Catching Lions.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1914, Page 2

Catching Lions.

You know what a ferocious, powerful I,cast the lion is. And you can imagine what strong chains it would Lake to hold him fast. So, can you even imagine a lion captured with fly paper ? Well, not so very long ago, four huge man-eating lions ' were taken in that manner at the village of Owalior, in India. It happened that the head man of the village was able to shut the four lions up in a hut into which they had ventured in search of prey. i, He kept them thus barricaded for [nearly two weeks, no one being willing to attempt to capture them. Finally he thought of a scheme that proved as successful as it was original. He had thousands of sheets of fly paper spread on the ground before the entrane to the hut. "Then, suddenly, the barricades were lifted and the four lions came bounding out — . | into the fly-paper. Of course it { stuck to their paws, and, of course, j when they tried to lick it off it became stuck fast to their faces and heads. The lions promptly forgot

all about human beings and, in their wild endeavours to get rid of the fly papers, rolled over and over on the ground, roaring and fighting for breath.

Then the head man and his followers rushed forward with lon<r ropes, lassoed the plunging lions and tied them up—fly paper and all !