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The Gong-donkey regarding him with attention and with the warmest affection, suddenly perceives that he is the greatest enemy he has in the world, and hits him hard in the countenance. The astonished Jackall closes with the Donkey, and they roll over and over in the mud, pummelling one another.
Malcolm and Lacosse went after the brute, and succeeded in forcing it up by a less precipitous path. At noon we halted and dined. During the afternoon, we observed a sort of small jackall, of the kind called Koyott, hovering about the line of march. It only occasionally showed itself amongst the long rank grass and bushes.
You may judge of my surprise on finding it to be actually alive with enormous flees. The cunning jackall had taken this effectual means of ridding himself of his troublesome companions."
Have you anything of a voice? `I can't say that I have, replied I. `I don't mean whether you can sing in tune, or have a good voice, that's no consequence; all I want to know is, have you a good loud one? `Loud enough, if that's all. `That's all that's requisite; so long as you can make yourself heard you may then howl like a jackall or bellow like a mad buffalo, no matter which as many pay us for to get rid of us, as out of charity; and so long as the money comes, what's the odds?
All was hushed in silence; the busy hum in the village had ceased and no sound broke on the silent night, except the occasional bark of the Parrier dog, or the cry of the lurking jackall and the measured tread of the native sentinel, as he paced to and fro in front of the door of the tent.
We had a very fine Christmas dinner just Ethel, the McCarthy's and I. Fanny, tell Charles, brought in the plum pudding with a sprig of holly in it and blazing, and after dinner I read them the Jackall About eleven I started to take Ethel to Miss Terry's, who lives miles beyond Kensington. There was a light fog.
They are extremely superstitious, always consulting omens, such as the direction in which a hare or jackall crosses the road; and even far more trivial circumstances will determine the fate of a dozen of people, and perhaps of an immense treasure. All worship the pickaxe, which is symbolical of their profession, and an oath sworn on it binds closer than on the Koran.
The dearest friend the Gong-donkey has in the world, is a sort of Jackall, in a dull, mangy, black hide, of such small pieces that it looks as if it were made of blacking bottles turned inside out and cobbled together.
The unhappy woman never saw the rising of another sun, and in the white sands, beneath the waving palms, where the hyena prowled and the wild jackall barked hoarsely through the night, lies the mortal remains of this ambitious woman, who thus fell a victim to the jealous and revengeful passions of those by whom she had been surrounded by her unscrupulous husband.
The officer also recognized Ruby, and, with a glance of surprise and pleasure, exclaimed: "What! have I bagged you at last, my slippery young lion?" Ruby smiled as he replied, "Not quite yet, my persevering young jackall." "Eh! how? what mean you?" exclaimed the officer, with an expression of surprise, for he knew that Ruby was now in his power.
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