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"That we should stand in the great kloof between the two vleis yonder the Heer Marais knows the place when the wild geese flight over an hour before sunset, and that he who brings down six of them in the fewest shots shall win the match." "If our guns are loaded with loopers that will not be difficult," said Pereira.
"Heavens! did you ever hear such a row in your life?" he went on, as through the open door connecting with the Exchange came the frantic bawling of brokers, competing wildly for Blazesfonteins, and Verneuk Laagtes, and Hellpoorts, and Vulture's Vleis, and Madeiras, and Marshes, and up and down the whole gamut.
Of course, he had followed blindly like the hot-headed, hard-riding sportsman he was followed blindly, wooed irresistibly, and won gloriously. And then ... Over the kopjes, over the vleis, over the veldt a black cloud came down, and suddenly all the picture was blotted out.
"Come on," he said; "don't let's be beat," for by this time the hunter was alive in him. So off they went at a gallop, up slopes and down slopes that reminded Benita of the Bay of Biscay in a storm, across half-dried vleis that in the wet season were ponds, through stony ground and patches of ant-bear holes in which they nearly came to grief.
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