[In Africa by John T. McCutcheon]@TWC D-Link bookIn Africa CHAPTER XIII 23/26
His ears were hardly as pendulous, being rather more trenchant than pendulous, and therefore more mobile in action.
His tail was facile and retrousse, with a lateral swing of about a foot and an indicated speed of seventeen hundred to the minute.
When you add to these many charms, those mild eyes, surcharged with love light, and a bark as sweet as the bark of the frangipanni tree and as cheerful as the song of the meadow-lark, you may realize some of the estimable qualities that distinguished Little Wanderobo Dog. For some weeks he stayed with us, Tray-like in his faithfulness, and always in the vanguard when danger threatened the rear.
One day our caravan passed through a group of migrating Wanderobos.
There were a dozen or so of men, all armed with spears and bows and arrows; also fifteen or twenty women, thirty or forty _totos_, and about a score of dogs. Here was the test.
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