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slipped all his dogs
and told Sammie to do
the same... The seventeen
rounded away on the
trail and were soon
with a sight. Now began
a long chase, yelping,
whipping, baying, the
dogs alternately running
behind the houndish we
hung to it for a half
and hour when a few
black dots on the horizon
encouraged us. There proved
it the dogs returning. They
had given it up. But
soon a big yellowish-white
form could be seen far
ahead in the jungle, see,
charging and scattering
the dogs.
When we came up it
was a magnificent sight
there he stood at bay
surrounded. Apparently not
in the least worried knowing
that with such strength
and quickness as the
painted dogs are but