Do tell me where the blood came from." "That awful thing plunged from the underbrush upon me so suddenly that I was almost paralyzed," he said soberly.

"I didn't have much time to think, and I don't know what I should have done if it had not been for this excellent club, which I had cut for a rather inglorious purpose.
With one of the very best strokes a golfer ever made I cracked his skull." "His skull!" "Likewise his neck.

Then I cut his throat." "Oh, Hugh!" breathlessly.
"And I'm going back after breakfast to carve him up into roasts, steaks and soups enough to last us for a month." "Oh, it must have been something gigantic.

Was it a rhinoceros ?" she cried ecstatically.
"Rhinoceros soup!" he exclaimed in disgust.

She was properly contrite.
"I'll tell you what I killed, if you'll promise to endure the shock--and not tell any one else." He placed his lips close to her little ear and whispered in awe-struck tones, "A turtle!" "A turtle! Why, a baby could kill a turtle.