The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pasttimes 1898-01: Vol 6 Iss 30 (1898)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 39
laws like grim death ; the thong snaps and—we sit down; more forcibly than elegantly, perhaps ; but still—we sit down, all of us. By the time we are ready to try again the ertvark has burrowed a foot deeper into the earth, and the spades have to be brought into requisition again. This time, and… … THE DOG RETIRES WITH A HOWL strong for him, and he gives in. A dog rushes forward and tries to get a bite somewhere; but the ertvark gives him a tap and the dog retires with a howl and a shoulder ripped open. Then the old bushman skips round and rains down blows with his knupkierie upon the…
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