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pursued by a pack of wild dogs. The dogs had cut one 

 zebra out of the herd and, running well forward on both 

 sides of him, prevented his mixing with the others. 

 They kept him constantly worried by threatening heels 

 and flank, with occasional rushes, as if to grab his throat, 

 and when he lunged at his tormentors on one side, the 



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line always receded while the opposite line closed in. 

 These wavering lines, with glistening fang and hungry 

 bark, alternately closing in with threatening rush, he 

 vainly sought to escape. If he charged one side, it 

 would recede, while the opposite line closed in; it 

 simply changed his course and separated him more 

 widely from the protection of the herd. Although the 



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