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Updated: June 6, 2025
I set vermin traps and caught the guinea-fowl. Then the natural enemy appeared in the wild cats, who took the guinea-fowls out of the traps. At first the men were suspected of stealing the birds, but the unmistakable tracks of the wild cats were found close to the traps, and shortly after the wily cats themselves became victims. These were generally of the genus Herpestris.
Good Lord! how he jumped if you asked him a plain question. The chap was as nervous as a guinea-fowl! "Here are the figures for the last four years. I think you'll agree that I couldn't ask less than seventy thousand." Through the smoke of his cigar old Heythorp had digested those figures slowly, Joe Pillin feeling his teeth and sucking lozenges the while; then he said: "Sixty thousand!
The jungles literally swarmed with guinea-fowl I shot nine in a few minutes, and returned to camp with dinner for my whole party. The only species of guinea-fowl that I have seen in Africa is that with the blue comb and wattles.
A few villages of Bakalahari were found near them, and great numbers of pallahs, springbucks, Guinea-fowl, and small monkeys. Lopepe came next. This place afforded another proof of the desiccation of the country.
Two shots had been fired at guinea-fowl a little way off in the valley; the women fled into the woods, and the men came to know if war was meant, and a few of the old folks only returned after hearing that we were for peace. The beer had come to him from a distance; he had none of his own. Like the Manganja, these people salute by clapping their hands.
When the children heard Rose's story, they were amazed, that even Barbara could be so mean, but they all agreed that at any cost the guinea-fowl must be set free. In a body they went to Susan and told her so, at the same time handing her the purse. Then they ran off without waiting to be thanked. Rose only stayed behind.
She divined that something was the matter, but she could not divine that his thoughts were saddened by the recollection at the Guinea-Fowl of the lovely music which he had heard earlier in his drawing-room and by the memory of the Major's letters and of what the Major had said at the Reynolds Galleries about the past and the possibilities of the future.
"That guinea-fowl!" he decided, after due consideration. The yard-boy caught it and gave it to the poultry-maid, who held it while Uncle James carefully felt its breast. "That will do," he said. "Quite a beauty." The yard-boy took it from the poultry-maid, tied its legs together, cut its throat, and hung it on a nail. "That drake!" Uncle James proceeded.
When Philip came to the door he stopped suddenly, for the idea struck him that it would give Rose great pleasure to carry the guinea-fowl to Susan. So he ran into the village. All the children who had given up their Mayday money to Susan were playing on the green. They were delighted to see the guinea-hen once more.
Our pretty songsters of Ain were no more to be seen. The guinea-fowl was seldom met with, and only a few tiny antelopes wandered over the solitary expanse. Instead, we were aroused by the roar of the lion, the laugh of the hyena, and we had to protect our sheep and goats, as the spotted leopard was lurking around our tents.
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