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Allan’s Wife

CHAPTER III
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They are in full cry; the giraffes hear them and are away, rolling round the koppie like a ship in a heavy sea.
No marrow-bones after all.

See! the foremost dogs are close on a buck.
He has galloped far and is outworn.

One springs at his flank and misses him.

The buck gives a kind of groan, looks wildly round and sees the waggon.

He seems to hesitate a moment, then in his despair rushes up to it, and falls exhausted among the oxen.


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