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Again the cart moved forward for 70 or 80 paces, and two bucks were seen trotting away to the left, as they had caught a glimpse of the approaching cart. In an instant the cheetah was loosed; for a moment it hesitated, and then bounded forward, although the two bucks had disappeared.
"She is only a girl, like other girls, I presume; but, this old fool is only fit for the old days, when the kings of Oude flew kites and hunted with the cheetah; or, half drunken, dozed, lolling away their lives in these marble-screened zenanas, with the automatic beauties of the seraglio. Our English cannon have knocked all that nonsense silly.
He rode into the donga with his rope swinging free, and when the cheetah failed to spring at him, he dropped the noose over the animal's head and dragged him out on to the open veldt, where his picture could be properly taken. The black porters looking on commenced speaking in low tones in their native tongue, and nodded and grinned at each other as they had done before.
"You know it's dangerous, Cheetah. The horse is a shier. That man is blind in one eye." "Get back into the carriage," said Benham, whitely angry. "But !" Just for a moment Amanda looked scared. Then with a queer little laugh she jumped in again. Amanda was never a coward when there was excitement afoot. "We'll smash!" she cried, by no means woefully.
"Cheetah!" she said. "Why have you come back like this?" Then at his mute gesture she sat down at his feet. "I wish you would sit down, Easton," he said in a voice of subdued savagery. "Why have you come back?" Sir Philip Easton found his voice to ask. "SIT down," Benham spat, and Easton obeyed unwillingly. "I came back," Benham went on, "to see to all this. Why else?
It would not be a good thing for my master to hear, nor for his servant to tell the cheetah's ways with a body from which life is gone out." "You've made a strong argument for the cheetah as a fighter, Bhanah, but you don't seem to stand much for his character." "Who faces the hunting cheetah, Sahib, faces death.
"Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of papers." "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "No. What a strange idea!" "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which stood on the top of it. "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "Ah, yes, of course!
Four Eyes loved words like these. He taught me most of my English. He was always making fun. You could never tell. He called me his cheetah-chum after times when I was angry. What is cheetah? He always teased me with it." She chattered on with all the eager naivete of a child, which Smoke found hard to reconcile with the full womanhood of her form and face. Yes, her father was very firm.
A few years ago, the capua, or demon-priest of a "dewale," at Oggalbodda, a village near Caltura, when suffering under small-pox, was devoured by a cheetah, and his fate was regarded by those of an opposite faith as a special judgment from heaven.
While the rest of the deer escaped on either side, the one the cheetah had fixed on had kept a straight course, now by the side of a nullah, now over the wiry grass, now through thick bushes. The cheetah meanwhile skimmed over the surface of the ground, as if requiring no rest for its feet. The forest appeared ahead.
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