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Besides, being bald-headed, he could furnish no scalp, and was therefore not worth killing. In this dilemma, the Zebra conceived an idea which his companions greeted with grunts of approval, and immediately proceeded to carry out.
My dandy mother is giving me something I've been aching to have." Miss Upton's face brightened. "Yes, I know. Something's being built way back o' your house. Folks are wonderin' what it is. It looks like some queer kind of a stable. What in the world can you want, Ben! You've got the cars and a motor-cycle, and a saddle-horse." "Well" confidentially "don't tell, Mehit, but I wanted a zebra.
The government revenues are levied, on a very small scale, exclusively for the benefit of the chief and his grey-beards. In case of an elephant being killed, he also takes a share of the meat, and claims one of its tusks as his right; further, all leopard, lion, or zebra skins are his by right.
I dare say it may have struck you, that it resembles very much no other member of the animal kingdom, except perhaps the Zebra or the Ass. But let me ask you to look along these diagrams. Here is the skeleton of the Horse, and here the skeleton of the Dog. You will notice that we have in the Horse a skull, a backbone and ribs, shoulder-blades and haunch-bones. Now turn to the Dog's skeleton.
Antelope and wildebeests, zebra and hartebeests, there seems no end to them in this sportsman's paradise. At night, attracted by to-morrow's meat that hangs inside a strong and well-guarded hut, the hyaenas come to prowl and voice their hunger and disappointment on the evening air.
The boys had their own beliefs about the different animals, and one of these concerned the inappeasable ferocity of the zebra. I do not know why the zebra should have had this repute, for he certainly never did anything to deserve it; but, for the matter of that, he was like all the other animals.
Just as he had nearly reached me, and as I was trying to figure on what kind of a fight I could put up with a clubbed rifle barrel, he fell dead. To be killed by a lion is at least a dignified death; but to be mauled by a zebra! I am sorry I did not try out this heavy-calibred rifle oftener at long range.
His belly cried aloud in anguish and his jowls slavered for flesh. Zebra or deer or man, what mattered it so that it was warm flesh, red with the hot juices of life? Even Dango, the hyena, eater of offal, would, at the moment, have seemed a tidbit to Numa. The great lion knew the habits and frailties of man, though he never before had hunted man for food.
Swan, who was missionary for many years in the Congo Free State, thus describes the custom: 'If I were to ask the Yeke people why they do not eat zebra flesh, they would reply, 'Chijila, i.e., 'It is a thing to which we have an antipathy; or better, 'It is one of the things which our fathers taught us not to eat. So it seems the word 'Bashilang' means 'the people who have an antipathy to the leopard; the 'Bashilamba, 'those who have an antipathy to the dog, and the 'Bashilanzefu, 'those who have an antipathy to the elephant. In other words, the members of these stocks refuse to eat their totems, the zebra, the leopard, or the elephant, from which they take their names.
Kick off, even dough you stick on like Chico." "But we could soon teach Chico to ride it. I suspect that it would puzzle even a zebra to kick him off." "We will try," said Timbo. "We go and make many pitfalls; but take care, Massa Natty, you no tumble in when tiger or leopard dere."
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