with his double gun in about an hour and a half he found where he had left him at the foot of � it is never too late to mend a tree tall and smooth as an s main mast who was np in happy repose like a dog in warm weather rose and with a slight said now i go up and look he made two sharp cuts on the tree with his and putting his great toe in the nick rose on it made another nick higher up and holding the smooth stem put his other great toe ia it and so on till in an short time he had reached the top and left a staircase of his own behind him he had hardly reached the top when he slid down to the bottom again and announced that he had discovered what they were in search of george the pony to the tree ana followed who struck farther into the wood after a most disagreeable scramble at the other side of the wood stooped and put his finger to his lips they both went cautiously out or the wood and mounting a bank that lay under its shelter they came plump upon a little party of four male and three female the women were seated round a fire burning beef and the outside then putting it down to the fire again the men who always serve themselves first were lying but at sight of and they were on their feet in a moment and their poised in their hands walked down the bank and poured a of abuse into them two of his native sentences he uttered a quiet aside to george suppose black fellow lift spear you shoot him dead and then abused them like again and pointed to the make thunder two mouths in george s hand after a severe on both sides the voices began to calm down like water going off the boil and presently soft low passed in pleasant then tne eldest male savage made a courteous signal to that he should sit down and on this administered three among the and sent them flying then down he sat and had a at their beef � george s beef i mean the rage of hunger appeased he rose and with the male savages took the open country on the way he let george know that these black fellows were of his tribe that they had driven off the cattle and that he had insisted on � which was about to be made and sure enough before they had gone a mile they saw some beasts in a narrow valley gave a shout of joy but counting them he found fifteen short when inquired after the others the shrugged their shoulders they knew nothing more than this that wanting a dinner they had driven off forty but finding they could only eat one that day they had killed one and left the others of whom some were in the place they had left them the rest were somewhere they did n t know where � far less care they had dined that was enough for them when this characteristic answer reached george he clenched his teeth and for a moment felt an impulse to make a little thunder on their but he groaned instead and said they were never taught any better then and he set to work to drive the cattle together with infinite difficulty they got them all home by about eleven o clock at night the next day up with the sun to find the rest two o clock and only one had they fallen in with and the sun so that lazy gave in and crept in under the beast for shade and george was fain to sit on his shady side with moody brow and sorrowful heart presently got up i find one said he where where cried george looking all round pointed to a rising ground at least six miles off george groaned are you making � � it is too to a of me i can see bat a barren hill a few great here and there yoa are never taking those bushes for smiled with utter white fellow stupid fellow he see nothing well and what does black see snapped george � black fellow see a crow coming from the sun and when he came over there he turned and went down and not get up again a good while then black fellow mj i presently come flying one more crow from that other side where the sun is not black fellow watch him and when he come over there he turn round and go down too and not get up a good while then black fellow say i know � o come along cried they hurried on but when they came to the rising ground and bushes put his finger to his lips suppose we catch the black fellows that have got wings you make thunder for them he read the answer in george s eye then he took george round the back of the hill and they mounted the crest from the reverse side they came over it and there at their very feet lay one of s best with tongue breathing his last gasp a crow of the country was perched on his ribs digging bis thick into a hole he had made in his ribs and another was picking out one of his eyes the birds rose heavily and swelling with george s eyes flashed his gun went up to his shoulder and saw the brown barrel rise slowly for a moment as it followed the nearest bird off with broad hack to the bang the whole charge shivered the who instantly dropped with shot like a while a cloud of dusky feathers rose from him to the air the other hearing the ly thunder and s t bid i ve 