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Square, someplace like that. [laughter] Then, of course, he took off for nine months; he was gone on the Chrysler Expedition, and we got married in October when he came back.

HENSON: How did you feel about letting him go off to the wilds of East Africa?

MANN: I was pretty worried about him, and there were some kind of exciting stories in the newspaper.  There was one about him being charged by a herd of buffalo. It was a picture, a drawing that some artist had made that really looked as though poor Bill had no chance at all. [Laughter]

HENSON: Yes, he has that story in one of his books.

MANN: Yes, he did.

HENSON: And that is quite a story.

MANN: He said the herd parted and went around him.

HENSON: But it was close.

MANN: There were some good stories in that book.*  I like the one about when they caught a gnu, and they didn't have anything to tie it up with, and he took his belt off, and I think tied the animal's legs together or something, and the animal shook them off and started bounding off over the horizon, and the movie man said, "Oh, Bill, do that all over again."

*William M. Mann, [[underlined]] Wild Animals In and Out of the Zoo. [[/underlined]] Smithsonian Science Series, vol. VI.