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only three weeks old, it had been able to keep up with 

 the pace of the herd. 



Observe the sensitive face of this little Tommie. The 



FIG. 6. The sensitive face of a young Thomson's gazelle. 



large eyes, the wide-open ears, the dilated nostrils are 

 evidence that such an animal is an escaping, not an attack- 

 ing animal, and that the limit of its speed of energy is 

 heatstroke. 



As we approached, this little Tommie leaped from all 

 knowledge of its herd, until, its limit of speed having been 

 reached in exhaustion, we found it, terrified and trembling, 

 in the long grass. 



Mrs. Crile took it to her hut, warmed it, fed it milk, 

 cared for it, worried about its diet, whether it was too cold 

 or too hot, whether it would sleep better under her bed or 

 out in the open, whether the milk should be diluted some- 



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