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^- ' CHAPTER II 



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Birth of the Calf 



^ I ^HERE was no difficulty In 



--' -^ following the trail. It stretched 



O away through the forest in a curving 



'<^ line, the brown earth showing darkly 



^'^) against the green of the herbage, 



r"^, avoiding the stems of the tall trees 



which reached one hundred feet and 



more towards the sky, 



(^ [ \ forming a lane through 



the rank vegetation, 



^'"^> and marked here and 



^^ ^ there by overturned 



^ ^ bamboo clumps or 



^xT ^li splintered saplings. 



The man kept to one 



side of the deeply 



{ ^^'^\ indented footmarks, for 



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