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have become of the spotted one, if I had been like 

 yourself and deserted my duty ? Go ; it is a case 

 of shame. You ought to conceal your face. 

 Enough ! " 



Leaving the culprit to keep watch by the dead 

 animal, the others returned to the village and thence 

 despatched men to bring it in. 



" Just catch me sitting up again," said Mackenzie, 

 as he reclined on his bedstead enjoying the more 

 than usually welcome cup of tea. " I declare I feel 

 as if I had been most unmercifully thrashed all over, 

 I am so awfully sore. There was a broken twig which 

 stuck into my ribs all night ; and, oh ! how fearfully 

 hard some of the knobs of the boughs were ! " 



" You managed to take it out pretty kindly, too, 

 considering," Hawkes observed. " I confess, though, 

 I am a trifle sore also. What a sleepless beggar that 

 fellow Rugouauth must be, to keep awake the whole 

 night, and after working most of the day too. 

 Be hanged if I could have done it, if there had been 

 any number of tigers about. I think after all ' it is 

 hardly worth the candle.'" 



" I strongly suspect old Eugonauth had his nap 

 also," said Norman. " I have a faint indefinite sort 

 of recollection that some one was snoring precious 

 near me ; but I cannot recall it for certain. Though 

 I have been successful, I confess I don't think night 



