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as patriotism and loyalty go in the present age, 

 the last-mentioned, however, is the better man. 



Before reaching the wagons, Donna had a 

 brush with an aard-vark (ground pig), which she was 

 unable to hold, so it escaped to its burrow. To 

 have got it out would have taken the whole of my 

 party the best portion of a day, so I left my resolute 

 and industrious pointer out of sight in the bowels of 

 the earth, scratching and giving tongue with as much 

 assiduity as if she had just commenced a day's work 

 instead of having concluded a most arduous one. 



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