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she was doing out in a lion and leopard infested 
place. Leopards in particular are fond of dogs, 
not the way you and I are fond of them, but in 
quite a different way. A leopard, so it is said, pre¬ 
fers a dog to any other food and will take daring 
chances in an effort to secure one for breakfast, 
dinner, or supper. Therefore, how little Mosina 
escaped so long is a mystery yet unsolved. 
The experts decided after a thorough consider¬ 
ation of the case, viewing it from all possible an¬ 
gles, that the little dog was a Wanderobo dog. The 
Wanderobo are natives who live solely by hunting 
and generally have the most primitive sort of a 
grass hut at the edge of a swamp or deep in the 
solitudes of the forest. They put rude honey boxes 
up in the trees to serve as beehives, and it is from 
this honey and from the game that they kill with 
their bows and arrows and traps and spears that 
they manage to eke out a meager living. 
Like all true hunters, they keep dogs, and it is 
more than likely that little Mosina was the ex¬ 
property of some wild-eyed, naked Wanderobo 
who lived in the swamp. When our great crowd 
of noisy beaters appeared at the other end of the 
swamp the Wanderobo had doubtless crawled out 
of his hole and made off for the nearest tall grass. 
In going he had left behind Mosina as a rear-guard 
to cover his retreat or to stay the invaders’ advance 
until he could reach the nearest spot available to a 
hasty man. 
So we adopted this theory as to why Mosina was 
