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Updated: June 14, 2025
Just then I saw a jackal come up on its trail and begin carefully to stalk it, not even rustling a fallen leaf in its stealthy advance on the poor little antelope. All of a sudden, however, the jackal stopped dead for a second, and then made off out of sight as fast as ever he could go.
A servant had just lighted a lamp in the room behind them. "Go in!" said Baring. "I will come back to you." She obeyed him. She felt incapable of resistance just then. He passed on quietly, and she stood inside the room, waiting and listening with hushed breath and hands tightly clenched. The seconds crawled by, and again there came to her straining ears the cry of a jackal from far away.
When they had dug up and thrown away down the steep hill-side enough bones to satisfy their jackal proclivities, they began to cast about them for some more exciting diversion.
The booming, mournful call of these steamers, like the lowing of a cow for her lost calf, goes on for ever. There are times in the desert when the coyote and the jackal are silent; on forlorn coasts in the hours before the first of dawn the seagulls cease their screaming; but these voices are never silent, calling, circling, and cawing, calling around the City of Unrest.
Very soon she returned, and laid the sack down before him. 'Open it wide, that I may get in, cried he; and when he was comfortably rolled up inside he bade the sheep take him on her back, and hasten to the place where she had left the jackal. She found him waiting for her, and pretending to be asleep, though she clearly saw him wink one of his eyes.
There was behind it, in explanation, shadowed out, the glamor of an empire that Senor Barras would set up with the millions in his country of revolutions, and the enthusiasms of a foolish mother. And yet the jackal and this wreckage had not touched her. There was no stain, no crumpled leaf. She was a fresh wonder, even after this, out of a chrysalis.
So the iguana, nose down into the water, drank away, until the jackal began to think he would never leave off, and was quite taken aback when he finally came to an end of his draught, and began to move away. 'Hi! hi! cried the jackal, recovering his presence of mind; stop a bit, and say 'Silver is his dais, plastered o'er with gold; In his ears are jewels, some prince I must behold!
He spoke with a semi-whimsical ruefulness, and, having spoken, he went to the window and stood there with his face to the darkness. "Hear that jackal, Will?" he suddenly said. "The brute is hungry. You bet, he won't go empty away." "Jackals never do," said Will, with his weary sigh. Nick turned round. "It shows what faithless fools we are," he said.
But as it was, he made excuses for him to others and to himself, and served the King's idle purposes so well that he gained for himself the name of the King's jackal, and there were some who regarded him as little better than the King's confidential blackguard, and man Friday, the weakest if the most charming of his court of adventurers.
Here again there are wild forms, like the wolf and fox and jackal, so like the domesticated members of the dog tribe that we cannot fail to recognize a common "dog-ness" and its significance as evidence of the relationship in ancestry of all these animals. Extending our survey so as to include the other tribes of flesh-eaters, identical principles come to light.
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