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"Did I not tell you, Macuht?" whispered Mameena suavely into my ear

"Yes, Mameena, you did--or rather I told you But you did not tell me

what the doe would do"

"The doe, Macumazahn, will crouch in her forain she laughed softly

"Why not do your own hunting, Masapo?" asked Saduko "Coood sport Outside this kraal there are other hyenas

waiting who call me chief--a hundred or two of them--asse Panda, whose House, as we all

know, you hate Co of

hyenas, O Masapo"

Now Masapo sat silent, for he saw that he who thought to snare a baboon

had caught a tiger

"You do not speak, O Chief of the little Ae and jealousy "You will not leave your beef

and beer to hunt the hyenas who are captained by an umfokazana! Well,

then, the u up to Masapo, with the

spear he carried poised in his right hand, Saduko grasped his rival's

short beard with his left

"Listen, Chief," he said "You and I are ene rich, you will buy her But if so, I tell you

that I will kill you and all your House, you sneaking, half-bred dog!"