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decreed that he must henceforth be shut up in a cage as one of the regular 
sights of the gardens and not merely a frequenter of them. 
For a week all went well. The two comrades met and played 
together, and the dingo did not seem to object to his enforced idleness. 
Then one morning when his young master went into his cage for the 
purpose of cleaning it, he noticed that the animal showed signs of rest- 
lessness during their preliminary game together. However, they played 
happily enough, but as soon as the boy bent down to tidy the floor — he 
Australian Prisoners. 
was facing the dog — some savage instinct must have stirred him deeply, 
for he sprang with one bold leap and got on to the back of the crouching 
boy and fastened his ugly fangs in the calf of his left leg. Giving a 
sharp twist to his body in order to try to free himself from the brute, 
the boy managed to throw him off that leg, but only to feel the teeth close 
instantly in the right one. He quickly pushed his left arm around to 
save himself, but this movement merely made the almost mad thing 
crunch the left elbow and practically paralyse the arm for a time. 
