CAPE FOXHOUNDS 

 ant-bear or ardvark (" earth-hog "). 

 Luckily, they are not in this district 

 so plentiful as in Natal and Zululand ; 

 and yet one hole is quite enough to 

 spoil your hunting for the day, if not 

 for ever. The ant-heaps, too, are 

 obstacles, but honest ones, because 

 they are not invisible. But on we 

 fly, as though such things existed 

 not, and the pace is good enough to 

 take us clean away from all our 

 following ; but, luckily for them, 

 before we've had two miles of this 

 most glorious burst, a cowboy heads 

 the fox. He turns his line and takes 

 adown a valley to our left, and here 

 he finds a thick and scrubby cover 

 from which lead many blind ravines. 

 A check, while hounds endeavour 

 to worry out the line, gives pause for 

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