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"I wouldn't have waked you be- 

 fore daylight." 



"Just like you," was the grateful 

 remark of Dick, as he rose to a sit- 

 ting posture, and, rubbing his eyes, 

 looked up in the smiling face of his 

 friend, and then blinked at the bright 

 fire unt-i als vision became accustomed to 

 the glare. 



"Have you noticed anything?" asked 

 the lad, glancing at the lock of his rifle 

 before rising to his feet 



"Nothing special, though I am quite 

 sure there is more than one animal prowl- 

 ing among the trees out there; but they 

 won't be apt to trouble you, so long as you 

 keep the fire burning, and there is plenty of 

 fuel for that." 



"I'll not forget it, you may be sure." 

 Mr. Godkin drew an ember from the 

 flames, and, lighting his pipe, sat down with 

 his back against a tree. 



" I'll keep you company for a while," he 

 remarked, beginning to puff the vapor with 

 the enjoyment of an old devotee of the weed. 

 " It looks," said Dick, " as if you had 

 spent all your time pacing back and forth: 

 the ground is pretty well worn for some 

 distance." 



" That is the only safe thing to do, when 

 you want to keep awake, as you learned in 

 Africa. You know what an insidious enemy 

 sleep is, and, just so sure as you sit down 

 on the ground, you are gone." 



" I would not do that," said the youth, " but I expected to main- 

 tain a standing position ; by the way," added Dick, " are we likely to 

 obtain any antelopes like those which furnished us such good food in 

 South Africa?" 



"Hardly; though India has its supply of the beautiful creatures. 

 For instance, there is the goral of the Western Himalayas; the steppe 

 antelope, from beyond, with its queer bulging forehead; the nylghau, 

 belonging to the thickly wooded districts of India; Falconer's goat, 

 living in the highest portions of the Thibetan Himalayas; the panda 



