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mid-air, as if going to dart it at the poor thing, 

 every time, that with a broken leap, it attempted to 

 escape. Moosa and Adam Burrah, followed by a 

 crowd of others, came running up on hearing 

 Ohmed Medina shout for the latter, who being a 

 very zealous sportsman, I had constituted my head 

 forrester on occasions of the chase. The trivial 

 cause for so much stir excited a loud laugh, and 

 two or three of the boys rushing in soon secured 

 the dying animal, over which a timely " Ul Allah " 

 was said, and so sanctified it for food. 



