66 LODGES IN THE WILDERNESS 



should mind and body thus have been set at 

 variance with each other as the sense of grate- 

 ful warmth penetrated my shivering limbs ? It 

 is this kind of thing that places man at a dis- 

 advantage as compared with other animals, 

 who live in the immediately existing time. No 

 matter how fair the flowers or how rich the 

 fruits of the present may be, a menacing hand 

 stretches back from the future and touches 

 these with blight. When the Apostle of the 

 Gentiles wrote that he died daily, he merely 

 cried out under the lash of that curse of fore- 

 knowledge which is at once man's glory and his 

 doom. And the farther the eyes of man pierce 

 into the future, the more terrible will be the 

 things revealed. 



A yelp; then many yelps, — faint, but clear 

 as a tinkling bell. They came from the side 

 opposite the one from which I expected the 

 game to be driven. Cautiously I sank back, 

 wormed myself round and looked over the 

 edge of the scherm in the direction from which 

 the sound came. A jackal, of course, — but 

 why was he yelping? The reason was quickly 

 apparent. About seven hundred yards away 

 stood two ostrich hens. Running hither and 

 thither, in hot pursuit of the jackal, was the 

 cock bird. Autolycus was hard pressed ; it was 



