A TIMELY ARRIVAL. 



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These were intended to frighten the captive, and accomplished that purpose. 

 Either from exhaustion or fright, she became still. The pleading expression in her 

 large soft eyes, as she looked up at her captors, would have touched a savage. 



" I'll be hanged if I can kill her, though I expected to do it," said Jack Harvey; 

 " them eyes are too human. If she'll behave herself, and let us lead her back to 

 camp, I'll spare her." 



The flurry caused by this incident started the other giraffes in the vicinity, and 

 they went skurrying away at their highest bent. No attention was paid to them,foi 

 our friends had all they could attend to in looking after their captives. 



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GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS. 



It seemed a pity that the male had been killed, but it was impossible to capture 

 him. He was so large and strong that he would have continued fighting for free- 

 dom, while there was promise that the mother could be managed through her affec- 

 tion for her young. 



While she lay on the ground, the two babies stood quietly by her side, looking 

 down in such a wondering way that it was plain they were grieved and unable to 

 understand the meaning of the sad sight. 



Finally, at the suggestion of Pongo, the mother was allowed to rise. She came 

 to her feet in a hurry, and immediately started off again, but was checked without 

 any help from the mustang, to whose saddle the end of the lasso was still secured. 



" Do you think you can lead her?" asked Jack, of the Bushman. 



" Me can," he replied, with a nod of his head. 



