Title reads “The lioness triumphs.” A lioness drags a antelope carcass. She stands and looks at the camera. Title reads “Now she’s leaping at us.” The lioness runs and leaps toward the camera. “A direct hit.” The camera crew climbs onto a truck. The lioness runs away. “She dashes forward for a hundred yards then falls.” She runs and then falls on her back. A man olds a rifle through the open window of the truck’s open door. “Cautiously we creep toward our prize.” The truck pulls up to the dead lioness. Two men get out and look at her. “A full-grown specimen of the might of Africa’s Jungle.” The men is safari clothing hoist the lion onto their truck. “Africa- where man and beast are ever on guard.” The truck drives away.
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