36 DEL AGO A BAY. 



take hold of the collar, and led his dog away. 

 " Stray " was not in the least ashamed of 

 himself, though he was very sorry I had been 

 bitten, and for some days after, when I showed 

 him my bandaged wrist, would come and lick 

 me. 



Another time I did not fare quite so well. 

 My "Stray" was violently shaking a smaller 

 dog because he ran to me to be patted, and I 

 tried to drag him off, but before I could do so 

 the poor frightened stranger, who was wildly 

 snapping at anything, made his teeth meet in 

 one of my fingers, breaking the joint. The 

 craunch was rather sickening, and I feared my 

 work would be put a stop to for some time. 

 A friend helped me to splinter it up somehow, 

 there being then no doctor in the place, and I 

 hoped it was healing ; but in a few days the 

 splints slipped, and I had to set it again by 

 myself with hand and teeth. In time it healed, 

 but has remained a stiff joint. Luckily no dogs 

 go mad in Africa, so there is no fear of hydro- 

 phobia. 



