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she was doing out in a lion and leopard infested 

 place. Leopards in particular are fond of dogs, 

 not the way you and I are fond of them, but in 

 quite a different way. A leopard, so it is said, pre- 

 fers a dog to any other food and will take daring 

 chances in an effort to secure one for breakfast, 

 dinner, or supper. Therefore, how little Mosina 

 escaped so long is a mystery yet unsolved. 



The experts decided after a thorough consider- 

 ation of the case, viewing it from all possible an- 

 gles, that the little dog was a Wanderobo dog. The 

 Wanderobo are natives who live solely by hunting 

 and generally have the most primitive sort of a 

 grass hut at the edge of a swamp or deep in the 

 solitudes of the forest. They put rude honey boxes 

 up in the trees to serve as beehives, and it is from 

 this honey and from the game that they kill with 

 their bows and arrows and traps and spears that 

 they manage to eke out a meager living. 



Like all true hunters, they keep dogs, and it is 

 more than likely that little Mosina was the ex- 

 property of some wild-eyed, naked Wanderobo 

 who lived in the swamp. When our great crowd 

 of noisy beaters appeared at the other end of the 

 swamp the Wanderobo had doubtless crawled out 

 of his hole and made off for the nearest tall grass. 

 In going he had left behind Mosina as a rear-guard 

 to cover his retreat or to stay the invaders' advance 

 until he could reach the nearest spot available to a 

 hasty man. 



So we adopted this theory as to why Mosina was 



