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where pandemonium reigned. I stood perfectly 

 fascinated, and from the rock where I took up 

 my position watched the ungainly brutes with 

 the deepest interest for a couple of hours. I 

 was not more than ten yards from the nearest of 

 them, and those farthest away were not thirty yards 

 off, but they were so busily occupied with their own 

 affairs that they remained quite unconscious of 

 my proximity. 



I could easily have picked off half a dozen of 

 them with my rifle, and some of them had very 

 fine horns, but, of course, I had no intention 

 whatever of molesting them. They were much 

 more interesting alive than dead, and I never for a 

 moment entertained the thought of disturbing their 

 concert by firing my rifle. 



Two of them especially amused me very much. 

 One, who was evidently a bully, took up his position 

 stolidly at the waterhole and would not budge an 

 inch. Then a second came and stood opposite to 

 him and proceeded to give him a piece of his mind. 

 The bully, of course, answered back and there they 

 both stood for quite a long time, with their mouths 

 wide open, roaring bad rhino language at each other 

 for all they were worth ! The others, who were 

 waiting for their turn to have a drink, joined in the 

 discordant chorus from time to time. 



I noticed four mothers among them with their 



