The Archive · 1926

A Ghastly Sight

After the report, there was no quite sure about Namojing, whose head only he had seen, but' had, it seemed, thought best to remove a The ruling of Namojing in the matter of the problem now before might almost have come out of] a book on etiquette, "He decreed must either pick out a place on the far side of the hill over which he' had disappeared, where he could lie under a rock during the afternoon hheat,-or after a few minutes return' to seo if his first Lying-up rock was no longer being disturbed, 'We had waited for half a pipe, when the ram came back, over the same ridge, but at a different point. Hardly, however, had we clutched each' other in' jubilation when a herd of four ewes, with their Jamba, came across from an. other down, running between us and him. 'They must have been fright ened by someone other than ourselves, for Namojing declared that they had been travelling some time, but were now slowing down, being' tired with the heat and no' longer frightened. The ram sheered away from them, and went out of sight again,

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