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JOCK was lost twice : that is to say, he was lost to me, 

 and, as I thought, for ever. It came about both iff! 

 times through his following up wounded animals 

 and leaving me behind, and happened in the days 

 when our hunting was all done on foot ; when I 

 could afford a horse and could keep pace with him 

 that difficulty did not trouble us. The experience 

 with the impala had made me very careful not to let 

 him go unless I felt sure that the game was hard hit 

 and that he would be able to pull it down or bay it. 

 But it is not always easy to judge that. A broken leg 

 shows at once ; but a body shot is very difficult to 

 place, and animals shot through the lungs, and even 

 through the lower part of the heart, often go away 

 at a cracking pace and are out of sight in no time, 

 perhaps to keep it up for miles, perhaps to drop dead 

 within a few minutes. 



After that day with the impala we had many good 

 days together and many hard ones : we had our 

 disappointments, but we had our triumphs ; and we 

 were both getting to know our way about by degrees. 

 Buck of many kinds had fallen to us ; but so far as I 

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