But the great sport was to stalk bush-buck in the thickets, which is a game in which the hunter is at small advantage.

I have been knocked down by a wounded bush-buck ram, and but for Colin might have been badly damaged.
Once, in a kloof not far from the Letaba, I killed a fine leopard, bringing him down with a single shot from a rocky shelf almost on the top of Colin.

His skin lies by my fireside as I write this tale.

But it was during the days I could spare for an expedition into the plains that I proved the great qualities of my dog.

There we had nobler game to follow--wildebeest and hartebeest, impala, and now and then a koodoo.