Jock of the Bushveld
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Fitzpatrick Percy. Jock of the Bushveld
Preface
Chapter One. The Background
Chapter Two. Into the Bushveld
Chapter Three. Jess
Chapter Four. The Pick of the Puppies
Chapter Five. Jock’s Schooldays
Chapter Six. The First Hunt
Chapter Seven. In the Heart of the Bush
Chapter Eight. Lost in the Veld
Chapter Nine. The Impala Stampede
Chapter Ten. Jock’s Night Out
Chapter Eleven. The Koodoo Bull
Chapter Twelve. Jim Makokel’
Chapter Thirteen. The Allies
Chapter Fourteen. The Berg
Chapter Fifteen. Paradise Camp
Chapter Sixteen. The Tiger and Baboons
Chapter Seventeen. Buffalo Bushfire and Wild Dogs
Chapter Eighteen. Snowball and Tsetse
Chapter Nineteen. Jock’s Mistake
Chapter Twenty. Jantje
Chapter Twenty One. Monkeys and Wildebeeste
Chapter Twenty Two. The Old Crocodile
Chapter Twenty Three. The Fighting Baboon
Chapter Twenty Four. The Last Trek
Chapter Twenty Five. Our Last Hunt
Chapter Twenty Six. Our Various Ways
Chapter Twenty Seven. His Duty
Chapter Twenty Eight. Notes
Chapter Twenty Nine. Glossary
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Of the people who live lonely lives, on the veld or elsewhere, few do so of their own free choice. Some there are shut off from all their kind – souls sheathed in some film invisible, through which no thrill of sympathy may pass; some barred by their self-consciousness, heart hungry still, who never learned in childhood to make friends; some have a secret or a grief; some, thoughts too big or bad for comradeship. But most will charge to Fate the thoughtless choice, the chance, or hard necessity, that drew or drove them to the life apart; they know the lesson that was learned of old: “It is not good for man to be alone.”
Go out among them, ever moving on, whose white bones mark the way for others’ feet – who shun the cities, living in the wilds, and move in silence, self-contained. Who knows what they think, or dream, or hope, or suffer? Who can know? For speech among that hard-schooled lot is but a half-remembered art.
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“Yes, but if there isn’t time?”
“Say yer prayers!”
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