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desired, although at every few hundred yards bush 

 kooran (Ruppell's bustard Otis Ruppelli) would be 

 flushed ; but at length, in turning a corner, up jumped 

 a spring-bok in full sight of my pack, and with nearly 

 one hundred and fifty yards law. 



Riding with well-bred fox-hounds, when they are 

 in view of game, the pace is generally very stiff; but 

 riding with greyhounds the pace is unquestionably a 

 little more so, so I let my gallant little horse go, and 

 he proved himself capable of carrying thirteen stone 

 (over a country not the easiest in the world) pretty 

 close to the fag end of the hunt. 



I could not attempt to describe where each 

 particular dog was situated, as Virgil does in the 

 pulling down of Actaeon ; but this I can tell, that 

 sleek, bonnie, pretty little Connie Gilchrist had 

 the lead, and just behind her followed a yellow- 

 haired, fat Jezebel, whom no judge at a dog-show 

 would award the quality of pace to. The hunted 

 animal doubled and doubled again ; but all such 

 efforts were fruitless, and each turn brought up 

 the rest of the pack, when dear old " Arrack " (he 

 who assisted to slay the spotted hyena) got within 

 reach of the game, by running cunning, seized the 



