may pass unnoticed for a long while : attention seems 

 to be fixed on the animals rather than the man, and 

 frank curiosity instead of alarm is quite evidently the 

 feeling aroused. 



The wildebeeste had allowed me to get close up, 

 and I picked out the big bull and took the shot kneeling, 

 with my toe hooked in the reins to secure Snowball, 

 taking chance of being jerked off my aim rather than 

 let him go ; but he behaved like an angel, and once 

 more that day a single shot was enough. 



It was a long and tedious job skinning the big fellow, 

 cutting him up, hauling the heavy limbs and the rest 

 of the meat up into a suitable tree, and making all safe 

 against the robbers of the earth and the air ; and 

 most troublesome of all was packing the head and skin 

 on Snowball, who showed the profoundest mistrust of 

 this dark ferocious-looking monster. 



Snowball and I had had enough of it when we 

 reached camp, well after dark; but Jock I am not so 

 sure of : his invincible keenness seemed at times to 

 have something in it of mute reproach the tinge of 

 disappointment in those they love which great hearts 

 feel, and strive to hide ! I never outstayed Jock, and 

 never once knew him ' own up ' that he had had 

 enough. 



No two days were quite alike ; yet many were alike 

 in the sense that they were successful without hitch 

 and without interest to any but the hunters ; many 

 others were marked by chases in which Jock's part 

 most essential to success too closely resembled that 

 of other days to be worth repeating. On that day 



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