one of the vicious flashing stabs would have pinned 

 him to the earth and finished him ; but Jock was 

 never there. 



Keeping what cover there was I came up slowly 

 behind them, struggling and using all the force I 

 dared, short of smashing the lever, to get the empty 

 cartridge out. At last one of the turns in the fight 

 brought me in view, and the koodoo dashed off again. 

 For a little way the pace seemed as great as ever, but 

 it soon died away ; the driving power was gone ; 

 the strain and weight on the one sound leg and the 

 tripping of the broken one were telling ; and from 

 that on I was close enough to see it all. In the first 

 rush the koodoo seemed to dash right over Jock 

 the swirl of dust and leaves and the bulk of the koodoo 

 hiding him ; then I saw him close abreast, looking 

 up at it and making furious jumps for its nose, alter- 

 nately from one side and the other, as they raced along 

 together. The koodoo holding its nose high and well 

 forward, as they do when on the move, with the horns 

 thrown back almost horizontally, was out of his reach 

 and galloped heavily on completely ignoring his 

 attacks. 



There is a suggestion of grace and poise in the 

 movement of the koodoo bull's head as he gallops 

 through the bush which is one of his distinctions 

 above the other antelopes. The same supple balancing 

 movement that one notes in the native girls bearing 

 their calabashes of water upon their heads is seen 

 in the neck of the koodoo, and for the same reason : 

 the movements of the body are softened into mere 



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