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shouts and screams, some of the men makino- great 

 leaps into the air and others Ijeating their boxes 

 with sticks, to let the whole country know what fine 

 fellows they were and that they were off on a safari. 



THE MULES .... HAD MEANWHILE BEEN LOADED UP 

 WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY." ' 



When the mules and donkeys, which had mean- 

 while been loaded up with great difficulty, came 

 to take their places in the long line, the sound 

 of the wild shouting so excited the animals 

 that they began to kick and buck and lling 



