Commissioned by
a zoo to bring them some
baboons, the big game hunter devised a novel
scheme to trap them –
his only requirements being a sack, a gun, and a
particularly
vicious and bad tempered dog. Once in the jungle he
explained to his
assistant, “I’ll climb this tree and shake the branches; if
there are
any baboons up there, they will fall to the ground – and the
dogs
will bite their tail and immobilise them so that you can pick them

up quite safely and put them in the sack.” “But what do I need the

gun for?” asked the assisant. “If I should fall out of the tree by

mistake, shoot the dog.”