A retired British Colonel tells a tale of his time in 1950s Guyana, and his encounter with a stone lion.Meet Colonel Quentin James Abernathy (Ret.), former member of Her Majesty's Armed Forces.Colonel Abernathy retired some years ago as a bachelor, and now lives off his pension and his family's fortune. He is quite old, and belongs to a stately London gentleman's club.In The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Colonel Abernathy tells a tale to a club acquaintance - a tale of 1950s British Guyana in South America, and the Colonel's encounter with a lion.But this is no ordinary lion.This lion has been extinct for 10,000 years!Find out what happened in that long-ago time, in the good Colonel's own words, in T. M. Bilderback's rousing adventure short story, inspired by the classic song performed by The Tokens, The Lion Sleeps Tonight!
A retired British Colonel tells a tale of his time in 1950s Guyana, and his encounter with a stone lion.Meet Colonel Quentin James Abernathy (Ret.), former member of Her Majesty's Armed Forces.Colonel Abernathy retired some years ago as a bachelor, and now lives off his pension and his family's fortune. He is quite old, and belongs to a stately London gentleman's club.In The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Colonel Abernathy tells a tale to a club acquaintance - a tale of 1950s British Guyana in South America, and the Colonel's encounter with a lion.But this is no ordinary lion.This lion has been extinct for 10,000 years!Find out what happened in that long-ago time, in the good Colonel's own words, in T. M. Bilderback's rousing adventure short story, inspired by the classic song performed by The Tokens, The Lion Sleeps Tonight!
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