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school used, discarded, and forgotten ! No, they 

 were not forgotten ; and the memory of the last trek 

 was one long mute reproach on their behalf : they 

 had paved the roadway for the Juggernaut man. 



All that was left of the old life was Jock ; and soon 

 there was no place for him. He could not always be 

 with me ; and when left behind he was miserable, 

 leading a life that was utterly strange to him, without 

 interest and among strangers. While I was in Barber- 

 ton he accompanied me everywhere, but absurd as 

 it seems there was a constant danger for him there, 

 greater though less glorious than those he faced so 

 lightly in the veld. His deafness, which passed almost 

 unnoticed and did not seem to handicap him at all in 

 the veld, became a serious danger in camp. For a long 

 time he had been unable to hear a sound, but he could 

 feel sounds : that is to say, he was quick to notice 

 anything that caused a vibration. In the early days 

 of his deafness I had been worried by the thought that 

 he would be run over while lying asleep near or under 

 the waggons, and the boys were always on the look-out 

 to stir him up ; but we soon found that this was not 

 necessary. At the first movement he would feel the 

 vibration and jump up. Jim realised this well enough, 

 for when wishing to direct his attention to strange dogs 

 or Shangaans, the villain could always dodge me by 

 stamping or hammering on the ground, and Jock 

 always looked up : he seemed to know the difference 

 between the sounds he could ignore, such as chopping 

 wood, and those that he ought to notice. 



In camp Barberton in those days was reckoned 



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