A SERIOUS LOSS. 



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moment disappeared, from the rapidity of the action 

 with which they were used, and the young hound 

 lay upon the ground, sorely wounded, I knew 

 even unto death, I feared. 



Such an example would have been thought a 

 warning to the others ; not so, for Kama, a large 

 yellow dog, committed the same foolhardy act as 

 his comrade, and received the same return. I had 

 no fear for the remaining beast ; he had always 

 proved himself a cur of the first water, and as such 

 he turned out to-day. It is always so in field 

 sports of the description I write about, the valuable 

 dogs are invariably those of which you are first 

 deprived. 



ROAN ANTELOPE. 



