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Moreover, the activities of the tribe had driven all the game animals to some distance up the valley; and it was seldom that anything more formidable than a jackal or a civet-cat cared to come within a half-mile of the fires. It was now two years since the rescue of A-ya from her captivity among the Bow-legs.
I have a letter from one David Patterson, who was Dr. Knox's jackal for buying murdered bodies, suggesting that I should write on the subject of Burke and Hare, and offering me his invaluable collection of anecdotes! "Curse him imperance and him dam insurance," as Mungo says in the farce. Did ever one hear the like?
He had quite a large family of his own by this time, for a jackal mother generally has four or five pups at a time, and Jinks had a good many wives.
Instances there had been of robbery from the person by thieves not all tracked down by Martial Justice and made examples of. The hovering human night-bird and the prowling human jackal, whose sole end is money and money's worth, have no terrors for Holy Poverty. But there are other creatures of prey more terrible than these.
And the animals all said to the tortoise: 'Well done, tortoise, you have proved your courage; now we can drink from our well in peace, as you have got the better of that thieving jackal! The Bear Once on a time there was a king who had an only daughter.
The soldier, without a moment's hesitation, thrust the pamphlet inside his coat, flung himself on his horse, and, turning from the market-place, dashed down the road. "For a man who can't abide the sex, this is a predicament," muttered the patroon's jackal, as the coach in which he found himself sped rapidly along the highway.
She was still standing in the same place when a baboon went by. 'What are you doing there, panther? 'I am listening to my children singing. It is here that the jackal keeps his school. Then the baboon seized a stick, and poked it in the cleft of the rock, exclaiming, 'Well, then, I should like to see your children!
She turned back to the mound again; then she saw something in the darkness near the stake, and peering distinguished a jackal. In a flash she was brave and angry; she sprang up, cried out, and ran towards the offering. She stumbled and fell, and heard the growling of the jackal going off. When she arose only the ashen stake lay on the ground, the meat was gone.
You did hit him. Put the jackal on the track, chief," said Mr. Hume. The jackal took one sniff at the ground, stared sharply around, then peered up into his master's face. "Search," said the chief, in his own tongue. "Follow the great one, O little friend. The trail is laid; the great one has sought out a moist spot; he lies angry and sore in the shade. Search and find."
The man who had stolen it had no answer to give; then the jackal said: "You yourself promised to pay double; you gave a bribe of one hundred rupees to the headman and one hundred rupees to the villagers and the cow you stole is worth two hundred rupees that is four hundred rupees, therefore you must pay a fine of eight hundred rupees;" and the man was made to produce eight hundred rupees and the jackal gave all the money to the villagers except ten rupees which he gave to Kara; and he kept nothing for himself.
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