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feast, although uninvited. The extraordinary agility 

 of this individual vulture strikes all his race within 

 sight with amazement. Nothing but powerful reasons 

 could induce their friend to such unaccountable velocity, 

 they doubtlessly argue within themselves, so they hurry 

 to learn the cause, and others hur.ry after them, and 

 they keep coming and continue coming till not enough 

 meat is left on the carcase, whether it be originally 

 as large as an elephant or as small as a steinbok, to 

 bait the tiniest hook to catch a minnow with. 



The only occurrence I know resembling the above 

 scene, is the actions of the members of the legal pro- 

 fession pouring into .the Law Courts, when there is a 

 cause celebre on trial, in which both plaintiff and 

 defendant are reputed to be millionaires. 



" Amba ! Amaga ! Trek ! " and almost before the 

 last word is finished by the driver, his whip swings 

 round his head, and by a sudden backward turn of 

 the wrist the lash produces a report as loud as a 

 gun-shot. Woe, then, to the ox that does not get 

 his shoulder firmly against the yoke, for an eagle 

 eye will detect his delinquency, and a skilful hand 

 punish him with a severity that the uninitiated could 

 never expect to be possible with a whip. Two more 



