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He was trying to tease the other into dashing after him, and giving up the advantage which his foe had in size and strength, but it was no good; and finally Adustus suddenly scurried into cover, redder than he had been, and our black-back, too, had to bolt for his hole, as an aardwolf, clumsy, hyena-like, and cowardly, but strong enough for them, scenting blood, came up to investigate.
When the aardwolf came back, and sniffed out what he had done, he said things. Our jackal's head appeared at his hole next dawn as a francolin began to call, and a gray lowrie a mere shadow up among the branches started to call out, "Go away! go away!" as if he were speaking to the retreating night.
Mercifully, the side-stripe seemed to attract the more attention, or shed the more blood, and while the aardwolf was sniffing at his hole not intending to do anything if the jackal had a snap left in him, which he had, for the aardwolf possessed the heart of a sheep, really the black-back managed to dash out and abscond to his hole with the hare.
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