This time a fat old jackal breaks to the left, long before the dogs are up.

"'Twas a genuine jackal-cry, Huzoor.

A jackal dog barked in the Oued Zaroud two miles away.

Next morning there is a jackal hunt, or cricket, or pony races, or shooting matches, or sport of some kind, while the rent collection still goes on.

"I am experiencing a goot-bye to you, who are jackals unt imitation men unt haf no goot right to be alive.

As we started on again, after giving the little Hanoverian the last treasured copy of a paper we had managed to keep that long against continual importunity, a big Belgian dog, with a dragging tail and a sharp jackal nose, loped round from behind an undamaged cow barn which stood back of the riven shell of a house where the soldiers were quartered.

Then he beat his hand down on my shoulders as he said in a hoarse voice, "Jim, but for you I should have had crimps in that jackal philanthropist's soul by now and in the souls of his kind.