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staunch, but a wish was expressed to try 

 the other two terriers we had brought with 

 us, and who, like the algebraical letter "x," 

 were unknown quantities. Well, to cut a 

 long story short, they were tried, and both 

 proved utter frauds, and were found wanting 

 in every attribute of a working terrier, though 

 with pedigrees as long as a rope-walk ; so 

 the only solution of the difficulty was to let 

 little Turk go in, and in half of no time we 

 fully realised that he, at any rate, was quite 

 "at home," but evidently, from the sound, 

 a long way off. Our only chance, until we 

 could hear them more distinctly, was to 

 follow on the " run," and we worked like 

 niggers. It is well known that an iron bar, 

 if one end is placed in or on the ground and 

 one's ear rested on the other end, will convey 

 sound from underground in a remarkable 

 manner. One of the party had been trying 

 with a bar along the supposed direction of 



