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seemed heart-broken at parting from each other, and brayed 

 most lustily together. During the march every now and again 

 his grief found vent in a prolonged and mournful bray. Arrived 

 in camp, he was set free and left to himself. Soon there was 

 a general commotion. " Jack " had disappeared ! It turned 

 out, that his love for '* the girl he left behind him " over- 

 came a loyalty of two years' duration to his master, and he 

 had trotted back. My boys had the bother of returning to 

 Masindi to fetch him, and for the next two or three days 

 "Jack" marched along in very low spirits. 



