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the larger dogs to catch the animal, which would often 

 scuttle from patch to patch, escaping our spears, and 

 ultimately take refuge in some fastness under a rock or 

 big stone, from whence if possible it was dug out. It 

 was generally advisable, too, to have a boy close behind 

 you with a gun, as we often put up duiker, and some- 

 tunes a reed-buck, while it was seldom that I came home 

 without a brace or two of partridges. 



