Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     While easily stalked, the rhinoceros is a dangerous customer, as most men will agree who have hunted him. If the rhinoceros gets one scent he almost invariably charges, often probably from sheer curiosity, but that does not make him any the easier to dispose of. Moreover, he runs and turns at a speed inconceivable in a beast of his vast bulk. Against his massive, sloping head the heaviest bullet is a mere flea bite, leaving no possibility of a stopping shot except with a hard nose ball sent fairly into the heart through the chest. An alternative is to stand absolutely motionless, when with his bad eyesight there is a possibility he may mistake you for a tree and veer past. Indeed, the best ruse in the crisis of any charge is to stand fast and still, for even the unwounded lion sometimes swerves in his charge and retires before a man who has the nerve to wait his coming.-Edgar Beecher Bronson in Century.