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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8, 3 September 1912, Page 3

A correspondent to a Cape paper relates that a Rhodesian farmer has successfully trained two African lions to protect his grounds against all intruders. He savs that the lions patrol the grounds all night, no sound, however slight, escaping their keen ears. The farmer had already employed numerous dogs to guard his place, but these in every case proved inadequate, one ami all succumbing to the temptation of poisoned meat. At his wits' end, he remembered that lions are never known to touch poisoned food, and immediately decided to mak? Ike experiment. His grounds have since been peculiarly free from trespassers. Fortunately the lions, though ferocious in their attitude to ail intruders, are particularly docile and gentle tow&lds their owners, and allow the irhabitants of the farm to caress and fondle them like lap dogs. No one is compelled to believe this veracious story who would prefer not to.