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Harp, I told you once, I'm not going to tell you again.

Don't make a racket in this forest.

I'm sorry, Roy. I was only trying to get us something to eat.

If I ever came to Africa, animals make me darn right nervous. Yeah, they should

make you nervous.

After shooting at that leopard yesterday.

I hit him, though, didn't I? Yeah, with a pistol, a pop gun.

Like I said, you should be nervous.

What do you mean?

Sometimes, wounded leopards follow the people who shoot at them.

You joking me, Troy?

Huh?

Boy, that looks like a road over there about 100 yards. It might be easy if we

took the road. No, we've got to keep clear of the roads.

Patrols from the prison will be out.

You can't go much further like this. We've got to. We've got to get to Omeru

compound. Why?

Because there's a doctor there.

Dr. Marsh Tracy.

Judy, get off the table. I'm operating.

All

right,

take a tissue impression, will you?

How's the eye reflex?

All right.

Biopsy negative.

No malignancy.

Heartbeat.

Heartbeat almost normal.

More sodium pentothal? No, no.

I'm okay.

That ought to do it.

Jack, finish up for me, will you? Sure.

Good thing we got there in time.

You'll be coming around shortly.

Jack, that was just beautiful.

Well, thank you, honey.

I hope someday I can be as good as you.

Oh, sure you will.

But you can't afford mistakes.

That's why it takes a lot of studying and practice.

Oh, Hercules.

What about it? Let's have a look at your sore throat, huh?

Come on over here.

Come on over here and let's take a look. Come on. Over here, love. Let me take a

look. Open wide. Now, don't lick the thing. Just eat it. You can't eat it.

me look.

Up, see, Daisy? That's better. Come on.

One more little look, see?

Lucky little dear, you get to go back to the forest while poor old Mike has to

stay cooped up here in the bush.

That's right.

I'm a city boy.

I learned all this stuff in college and Nairobi.

Now I want to learn something about where our animals live.

You've got to be kidding.

You grew up right here?

Yes, but not in the bush.

You grew up in New York, huh?

Right in old Washington Square.

Ever see the statue of Liberty?

No, as a matter of fact, I never got around to it. Ah, well, I never got

to seeing the real Africa. Not the way, uh, Dr. Livingston saw it.

Well, Mike, I know we've been pretty busy around here, but, uh... But after

uh... I know, I know.

After we finish the, uh, anti -venom project, the animal intelligence test

project, the alien captivity breeding project... Come on, Judy.

Okay, Mike, you win.

Tell you what, maybe next week we can take a couple of days off and we'll have

real field trip. How about it?

Good.

Lydia, you old thing.

You know what your problem is? You think you're a dog.

If you weren't so darn affectionate, we wouldn't have to tie you up.

ready her bath, all right?

Commissioner, this is a surprise. I didn't expect you to pink -gin time.

My dear child, any time is pink -gin time.

However, unfortunately, this morning, duty calls. Where's Daktari? Oh, he's up

at the hospital.

Hop in.

Got word this morning, Marshal, Dubiti.

Wounded leopard somewhere south of the village.

Wounded in the reserve?

Right.

Nasty job of work, a wounded leopard, as you well know, and very dangerous to

the village children.

Thought you'd want to do something about it. Yes, I do. Thanks, Edwin.

I'll take off as soon as I can.

Jack, you want to get the truck ready?

Right. Me too, Marsh.

Huh? Oh, come on.

Well, it would mean leaving Paula here all alone. Dad!

I don't need a babysitter. I'm a big girl.

Yes, I know, honey, but that isn't the point. Anyway, I won't be here alone.

This afternoon, Mrs. Fusby's coming by to give me my voice lesson.

And you know Mrs. Fusby. She's absolutely formidable.

And then later on at pink gym time, Hedley will be dropping by.

Will I?

Oh, oh, yes, of course.

Come to think of it, Hedley's formidable, too.

And if all else fails, Clarence will protect me.

Won't you, Clarence?

Clarence is a great watchdog, Marsh.

Can I go?

Well, uh, uh... All right, all right, you win, you win. I might go give Jack a

hand, will you?

Thanks, friend.

Daughters.

Now, look, let's see, Henry.

Just how big would you be? That would be in the dry area?

Right.

How you doing, Roy?

Bad.

How far is it to this compound?

Oh, maybe ten miles.

Well, maybe we oughtn't to go there, Roy. Look, I told you already. There's a

doctor there. What kind of a doctor? He's all kinds of doctor. He's very

Everybody knows about him.

He takes care of animals, too.

Animals?

He's the one that helped catch me and send me up to prison.

Oh. Him and his lion.

Lion?

Yeah.

Friendly lion. Oh, come on, Roy. There ain't no such thing as a friendly lion.

No? Well, this will knock me down.

Just because he liked me. Roy, maybe we ought not go to this doctor, huh? Could

have got clean away with this bloody lionhead and jumped me.

How was I to know? He just wanted to play games. Roy, maybe we can find a

around here.

Even a witch doctor. Harp.

Who was the boss in that prison?

You were, Roy.

You were the boss.

Who's the boss now, Harp?

You are, Roy.

You know that.

But a lion.

Maybe the doc won't do the operation.

Or he'll do it.

Well, how about afterwards?

He might tell the police.

He might tell the police we were there.

Yeah.

Yeah, he might.

If he was still alive.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Yeah, I think he's going to be all right, Matuli.

Yeah, we'll have her back with her herd in a day or so.

Oh, um, that load of Zambezi grass arrived while you were operating, and I

thought I'd unload it down by elephant shed number six.

Yeah, you better take all the men. I want to unload it before it dries out.

Sorry I can't give you a hand, but I, uh, got a wounded leopard up country. I

heard.

Keep an eye on this one, will you, Matuli?

I told Miss Paula to change the bandage every four hours and keep up the cell

phone.

Go ahead, Matuli.

Go ahead, Deontay. Good luck with your leopard.

Understood.

Well, run away.

I'm sorry, Judy, but not this trip.

Come on, Judy. Men only.

I cleaned some food and sleeping bags, just in case.

Oh, sorry, Judy.

We put in food and sleeping bags.

So we don't need them.

But leopards can be uncooperative at times.

Uh -oh.

Look at Mike.

Just what do you mean, uh -oh, look at Mike?

Look at you. You look like you're practicing to be the world's greatest

I don't get it. Mike, just because we're going out where, well, as you say,

where our animals live, that doesn't mean we're going to need rifles.

But I thought we would have them. Well, Mike, you know, with a little

knowledge... A man can walk all the way across Africa unarmed.

Vast -claved animals don't bite.

Oh, no.

No, they don't bite.

But only if they're threatened or wounded.

But this leopard is wounded.

Yes, but, Mike, we're going there to help him, not hurt him.

All we're going to need is a tranquilizing rifle, just to put him to

little while.

Okay. Okay.

Here, Mike, I'll take the gun.

I'll phone in if we're going to be out overnight.

All right, I'll be listening.

Come on, Big Hunter.

Told you once, I'll tell you again, you're not going. Now you're going to

home.

Take care of this young lady, will you?

See you in a while. Okay.

Good safari.

Bye, Joe.

Ten years ago, no one would have believed the things this man is doing.

Imagine.

around. See you later. Oh, here, I'll take that. Oh, thank you. Cheerio.

Oh, Judy, that's not for you.

That's strictly for Commissioner Henley.

See him?

No, I was just taking a look at that water hole down there.

Mike? Hmm?

You know what a symbiosis is?

Sure. A symbiosis is a case of an animal of one species who depends on or

helps an animal of another species.

Well, take a look at your first symbiosis.

But that's only one species, antelope.

Where are the animals they depend on? How do you suppose a waterhole got there

in a country as dry as this?

I don't know. How?

You know, Jack?

Well, I'd say a rhino was wallowing there recently, maybe during a

he sensed a spring underneath the ground.

At any rate, his body formed that depression, which makes a perfect basin

hold water for the antelope.

Right.

See, no rhino, no waterhole, no waterhole, no antelope, no symbiosis.

Uh -huh.

Just one thing, Marsh.

Who ever thought it all up?

Yeah, well, let's go.

Wake up. Roy, come on, wake up.

Look.

Shh.

It's a leopard you wounded yesterday.

Same one?

Yeah.

Roy, he's fallen.

Like I said.

Maybe if we both shoot at the same time?

I wouldn't do any good with these things.

Unless he was right on top of us. Don't say that.

Maybe... Maybe we can scare him.

Go ahead, fire one.

Huh?

Yeah.

Do you think he'll come back?

Who knows?

Help me up.

Sit down. Take it easy, Roy.

You're sure?

What's the matter? Is it that leopard again?

It's a car.

Must be over there.

It's a patrol from the prison. Go see.

No. Go see.

Put that leopard out there. Move on, but keep on the cover.

Well, we can't drive through that.

The Jubilee Valley is about four miles ahead. I think it's a good place to

start.

So this is the real Africa, huh?

Boy,

oh boy.

Yes, Mike.

But Africa's so big, it's almost any kind of country you can imagine.

Well, I'll get the tranquilizer gun.

Small or large dosage? You better bring them all. We don't know what condition

he's in. Right.

Isn't she?

Well, don't be afraid. I'm with a python.

They go for smaller prey like rabbits or monkeys or small deer. Why do you know

that, Jack?

I know it, but I still get a start every time I see one.

Uh -huh.

If they're harmless to man, why is it everybody all over Africa is afraid of

them? I don't know.

Racial memory, I guess. After all, our remote ancestors are only about so big.

Like I told you, it belongs to those three hunters who went into the forest

way. Get to Omero compound fast.

Hey, Mike, give me a slug of that canteen, will you?

Those colorless monkeys are sure handsome, aren't they?

Are they afraid of us?

I doubt it.

Why does whoop like that have to be sociable?

Let everyone know that everything is secure in his particular tree.

Well, if they spotted that python back there, that sociable whoop would change

to a warning bark pretty quickly, I think.

They know that pythons eat only every six weeks.

And that python looked pretty well fed.

To think that Dr. Livingston might have sat right here where I am.

I don't think Dr.

Livingston sat there.

It's full of safari. Come on, Jack. Give him a hand.

There you go. Give him.

Hurry.

There you go. Give him.

There you go. Look. Look over there.

There's an old bone that some hyena probably stole from a lion.

The big animals are pretty messy eaters in the jungle.

It takes the jackals and the hyenas and the vultures to clean up after them, but

the ants do the final housekeeping.

Oh, by the way, you better shake those clothes out before you put them back on.

Marsh, like I said before, whoever thought it all up.

A lot of men there, Roy.

Yeah.

See that shed?

Yeah. We'll lock them up in that last one over there.

There's six of them.

You're not armed. We are.

Look, I'll cover you. If there's any trouble, I'll drop one or two of them.

All right.

What are you saving that for?

I'm saving this for Dr.

Marks Tracy.

What is it?

Yoo -hoo!

Oh, Yoo -hoo, everybody!

Mrs. Bosby's here!

Hi -ho!

Yoo -hoo, where is everybody?

Mrs. Bosby is here!

Bosby is here! Oh, me, my darling!

I believe your vision is improving.

How many Mrs. Fuzzby do you see?

Hello.

Hi, Mrs. Fuzzby.

Hello, darling.

Judy started jumping up and down as soon as she heard your horn. Oh, that

wretched little hooter.

I understand that in the colonies...

Sounds a perfect major.

Or even a minor, if one wants that sort of thing.

Or even... Judy,

do you like my hat?

Well, I thought you would.

I wore this in the second act of Lucia de Lammermoor.

It was back in 19... Well, never mind.

Well, Paula, shall we simply plunge into it?

And I want no... extraneous noises from you, do you hear me?

Not from you either.

Now that's exactly the sort of thing I meant.

Well, let's be off now.

Inside, all of you.

Come on, get in there.

Where's the keys to the shed?

Where's the keys to this shed?

Which one?

Inside.

Come on.

Go, Judy.

Well, my dear, now I do believe we're ready.

How about a folk song? Oh, my goodness.

No. Goodness.

No. Basics first.

We have to do our scales first, you know. That's all I've been doing for

Couldn't we please?

Discipline. Please, dear.

Discipline. Basics first. That is the cornerstone to success. Now, here. I'll

show you.

Always think big.

Inhale. Expand. Up.

No.

There's an elephant over there.

I've been rather good -voiced today, I would say.

All right, dear, now you try it for me.

Remember, expand.

Think big.

The first word is go.

And who, may I ask, is Roy Meadows?

He's a killer my father captured and sent to prison.

That's right.

Send me to prison.

Him and his lion sent me there.

Well, then what are you doing here, my man? Why aren't you in prison?

Roy.

That lion's looking at me cross -eyed.

Yeah.

Does it mean anything?

Oh, shut up, Harp. Where's the doc?

He's not here. He's in the bush somewhere.

If you value this pet of yours, you'll tell the truth.

Where's the doctor?

If you don't believe me, that's Dad's car you've stolen.

The radio.

Easy, Roy.

Can you get him on the radio?

I can't. The only radio you took with him is the one on the dash in this car.

Look, Lily.

I'm very sick.

I'm very desperate.

There's a bullet.

It's still in my shoulder.

And I think the arm is broken.

I need an operation.

But there's nobody here who can operate.

You're here.

You'll do that operation.

Me? Like I said.

But I'm not a doctor. I'm not even a nurse. You'll do that operation or

Arp. Yeah.

Hold your gun on him.

Nothing since we saw that blood yesterday.

At least we know he winged one of them going over the stockade.

The reserve is just up ahead.

Perhaps we'd better poke around in there a bit.

Then we'll alert District Commissioner Headley. It is his district.

Why? Because of those baboons?

You know, if a hunter ever kills one, the other's become his lifelong enemy.

As long as that hunter's in their territory, they'll hunt him down and

to pieces.

Serves the hunter right.

Who'd want to shoot a baboon?

I think that's what the baboons want to know.

I saw a group of baboons like that once by a river.

This crocodile came along, took one out of the group and...

Must have been there for two hours.

Never came ashore again. When I left, he was still in the middle of the stream

and a screaming bunch of baboons were throwing rocks and sticks at him and

Wait a minute.

Why don't we go up after them?

He can't. He's wounded.

Hey.

Hey, that's the leopard we're after.

Jack.

20 milligrams?

You better make it 15. He's lost blood.

Give me that antiseptic.

Got a scalpel? Yeah.

There. There.

Put some antiseptic on there.

Yeah, boy.

There it is.

Hey, this isn't from a rifle. It's from a pistol.

38.

Pistol?

What numbskull would shoot a leopard with a pistol?

How's the respiration?

Almost back to normal.

More Benetton?

No. No, we're all right.

Yeah, let's throw some self in there, and then we'll stitch him up. All right.

That's good.

Yeah, you'll feel better when you wake up, old Tomcat.

Yeah, so will those natives in the village.

With that bullet out of him, he'll be his natural sweet self again.

What's that?

Smelling salts. What else?

I always carry them with me in case of the vapors. All right. Oh, you, whatever

your name is, now put that thing away and help hold his head up.

Here we go. Now watch it. Now watch it.

Nip.

Nip.

You didn't do like I said.

You didn't operate.

Well, how could she with you lying about like a sack of potatoes?

You might at least say thank you. Yeah.

Vettel, I couldn't. I don't know how to. You bought your father off, Vettel. But

to do it myself, I just... All right.

You've already said I've killed a man once. Or maybe I didn't. But I certainly

wouldn't hesitate to shoot that pet lion of yours.

Vettel, don't shoot!

It's a walkie -talkie.

But, Judy, you're great.

Look, it's a great idea.

That's it.

Better if there's a chance. It's remote, but if you go along with it, I'll try.

Doesn't mean letting Clarence go, though.

Well, it might be all right.

We've still got this chimp here.

Just in case you've got any tricks in mind.

Clarence, listen to me.

Take this walkie -talkie and go find Dad.

It's very important. You have to find Dad.

Okay, come on, parents.

Go find Dr. Hart.

Okay,

put him in the car and take him to the hospital. I'll give him something to

relieve that pain. Now you keep that chimp right where he can see you.

I'm sorry, Judy, but we'll do what the man says.

Just relax.

It's nothing but an ordinary painkiller.

Nothing but an ordinary painkiller.

Now, let's get this sleeve up.

Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.

Oh, drat, this has to stand aside, good man. Oh, I hate needles.

Big, ferocious convict like you, afraid of a needle. I must say, you are always

in the way.

You all right, Roy?

Come on, hurry up. Well,

you get rid of her.

You mean chuteroy? No, no, no. Lock her up in that cage over there. Those cages

are occupied.

What do you expect, a private room?

Oh, it's melodrama. Pure melodrama. Take your hands off, and may I get my

balloon, please.

I must say, I'm enjoying myself.

Don't worry, Mrs. Fusby. The lion cubs won't hurt you. The little ones are only

ten weeks old, and the big ones just five months.

Come on, in you go.

And you, baby.

Do you

feel

it?

Yeah.

Yeah, the pain is starting to go.

I thought you said he could find a doctor.

Clarence, take a rest.

Clarence, now listen to me. Take a rest.

Hold up.

Hold up. You there?

All right, Clarence. You've rested

long enough. Now get up and go.

Tell him to come in.

You won't hurt him, will you?

Not if I don't have to.

Yes, Commissioner, I'm in here.

How do you want to make that?

Roy Meadows.

That's right, Hadley.

Hope we'd not be troubled with you again.

Well, it's good to see you, Commissioner.

You may come in handy to us.

Well, I came to warn you about Paula. These two escaped from prison. I think

it's fairly obvious to the young lady, Hedley.

Yes, I suppose it is.

What's that, Judy?

Don't do that.

Come back here.

My dear Mrs.

Fusby, what on earth are you doing in there?

Oh, I'm in here by special interest.

Shall I lock him up too, Roy?

You might have some use for him.

It's Clarence on the loudspeaker.

He's got a walkie -talkie on.

Oh.

Strange.

Too many lions down here.

Why not?

Doesn't matter. Food.

We stay down on the plains where the herds are.

It looks like she's coming around.

Right on time. 38 minutes.

But we'll hang on until she does come around.

Yeah. Maybe we'd better with that lion lurking around, huh?

There's something mighty peculiar about a lion being up here.

Maybe she has wind of us

What's

that

around his neck

walkie -talkie

Come in, Romero.

Come in, Romero.

Romero, can you hear me?

Dad? Yes, Paula.

Is there anything wrong, honey? Oh, Dad.

Please don't ask any questions.

Troy Meadows is here with another man.

They've stolen your car.

They have guns.

Meadows is wounded.

I have to operate on him.

Tell me how.

Marsh, you can't do that. Who ever heard of phoning in an operation?

He said Meadows was armed.

Maybe you could prescribe something to knock him out.

Long enough for us to get down to the compound?

No, no, he's got a partner. He's liable to catch on.

Paula?

Paula, can Meadows hear me?

Yes, he can.

Yeah.

Yeah, I can hear you, Doctor.

Well, listen, Meadows.

If anything happens to Paula...

You better patch me up, Doc.

If she doesn't, I'm done for.

So you tell her, Doc.

You better tell her good.

I'm ready for the operation, Dad.

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