"A Growl in the Rain"
Oil, 16x20"
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A hunter in 19th Century British East Africa used the hindquarters of a cape buffalo as bait to attract lion.

After spending many hours in the hiding place watching the bait hanging from a tree, the night suddenly turned nasty. It started to pour with rain and he was getting chilled and miserable.

At one point he thought he saw a lion approach, but then in the bad light and heavy rain he lost sight of it and the bait.

Gingerly he decided to creep through the grass to get a closer look; what he found was terror in the night.

The full story will be told in Volume II of Seerey-Lester’s book Legends of the Hunt – Campfire Tales, due for publication in 2012.