Part 13 (1/2)
”See the and pointing up-strea saw three dark objects on the shi+ning glance of the vast river One, the canoe fringed with branches, slowly drifting upon the other two, raised but a few feet above the water on a gleaing, was standing up, looking not unlike an overfed prize pig Then the other rose, and the talked towards the water
”Wow! the old bull keeps on the safe side I said it; he is wise”
”Shameless!” cried the women
”Wherefore does the crocodile-slayer delay? Surely he knows the body will sink in the river if it reach the water”
”The smoke! He fires!”
”The cow is down! To the boats children--to the boats!”
Men and boysand shouting, half a dozen canoes were flying at full speed for the cow's s
”The sain! The bull has it! He is down; he is up; he is in the water! Wow! Look out, O 'slayer of crocodiles!'”
”But the cow lies still!” cried a woman, anxiously
”Oh ay, there will be meat for the feast But what of your man in the canoe if the bull seize him?”
”It is his risk,” said the wolass, and he and Co from the island to the old hunter, who seealasses
”Ah, it is well They tear the branches froht for the island The white man jumps--the men tumble out-- !--the bull takes the canoe in his jaws It will go hard with those who go for thethem”
”The white un above him He reaches the sand; the others crawl up also
They run! I do not see the bull!”
”There are crocodiles!” shrilled a woles
”This is not their fight, mother”
”But they will take our meat”
”It is the bull I think of” ”Will he meet the canoes, or will he face the three on the island? The white o back, but they sun at them They stop; they turn back”
”A pity,” said one of the officers, with a grin ”We should have seen sport”
”But the sport is not over,” said the other ”I back the bull
Reht,of this, old reat one, itThe white man is afraid the canoes would draw the bull away He wishes the bull to land--to attack him”