No trouble in this hotel about getting guests down-stairs for early breakfast!" "I'll get my rifle and settle the hash of one or two of them before I eat supper!" announced Will, turning away to make good his words.

But the proprietor seized him by the arm.
"Don't be foolish! It has been tried too often! I never allowed such foolishness at my place.

A party up-street fired from the windows.
Couldn't see very well in the dark, but wounded two or three lions.
What happened, eh?
Why the whole pack of lions laid siege to the house! They broke into the stable and killed three horses, a donkey, and all the cows and sheep.

There weren't any shutters on the house windows--nothing but glass.

It wasn't long before a young lion broke a window, and in no time there were three full-grown ones into the house after him.