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and reported that tlie poor wretch had bolted — gone 

 coastwards by the midnight train, leaving in the lurch 

 his partner, his engagements, everything ! With a huge 

 frame and a tenor voice, but the heart of a mouse, he had 

 evidently concluded within himself that he wasn't the 



man for Africa, and there he was right 



WHYDAH-FINCHES {Penthetria ardens). 



