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Updated: May 3, 2025
From their stand-point of poverty, with its endless deprivations and hardships, and the hopeless condition of their sex in the East, who can be surprised at the conclusion they adopt? Jackals are the night scavengers of Indian cities, and no sooner have the inhabitants retired to rest than their hideous half-bark, half-wailing notes jar upon the ear.
The first seen then again raised itself to gaze over the bushes at the boat, and, after uttering a hoarse half-bark, half-human cry, it plunged in after the rest and was gone. "Here, why didn't one of you have a shot?" cried Lynton. "What at?" said Brace quietly. "Those monkeys. It was an old man and his wife and two youngsters. Why didn't you fire? You had a good chance."
He could certainly do it again, and with more chance of success, since she was a woman now and not a child, and would better understand emotions of love. He stood there shaking with passion. What should he do? What step should he take? Then Binko, who had emerged from his basket, gave a tiny half-bark he wanted to express his sympathy and excitement.
'Much obliged, sir, says Joe, touching his hat. 'Come inside and I'll give you the cheque. 'Quite unnecessary now, says Starlight; 'but as I'm acting for a friend, it may be as well. We saw him pocket the cheque, and ride slowly over to the bank, which was half-tent, half-bark hut. We didn't think it safe to stay on the Turon an hour longer than we were forced to do.
As we came close, out walks old Crib, and smells at us. He knew us in a minute, and jumped up and began to try and lick Jim's hand: the old story. He just gave one sort of sniff at me, as much as to say, 'Oh! it's you, is it? Then he actually gave a kind of half-bark. I don't believe he'd barked for years, such a queer noise it was.
When he was half-way out, the boss's fox-terrier gave one sleepy half-bark, too languid and indifferent a sound to be taken as a warning; and for the rest, complete silence paid tribute to the extreme deftness of Finn's passage through the sleeping camp.
The demoralized condition of one of the poor families bore witness to the truth of the report. We listened to the very harrowing detail of the event, but will not weary the reader with it. The half-howl, half-bark of the jackals at night frequently awoke us. They carry off young kids in these regions, and do not hesitate to attack small dogs, but keep a wholesome distance from human beings.
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