Diamond Dyke

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George Manville Fenn. Diamond Dyke

Diamond Dyke

Table of Contents

Chapter Two

Dyke rouses up

Chapter Three

An Ostrich Race

Chapter Four

Another Failure?

Chapter Five

Big Birdnesting

Chapter Six

Lions at Home

Chapter Seven

Life on the Veldt

Chapter Eight

The Desert Herds

Chapter Nine

A Queer Predicament

Chapter Ten

The Hunter hunted

Chapter Eleven

Being Stalked

Chapter Twelve

Dyke is aggrieved

Chapter Thirteen

Jack behaves himself

Chapter Fourteen

A Resting-Place

Chapter Fifteen

Oom Morgenstern’s Sermon

Chapter Sixteen

A Dead Check

Chapter Seventeen

Out of Patience

Chapter Eighteen

A Test of Manhood

Chapter Nineteen

Sterling Coin

Chapter Twenty

A Sore Strait

Chapter Twenty One

Dyke sets his Teeth

Chapter Twenty Two

A Bit of Nature

Chapter Twenty Three

Daylight

Chapter Twenty Four

Black Shadows

Chapter Twenty Five

Duke’s Find

Chapter Twenty Six

The Night Attack

Chapter Twenty Seven

Oom startles his Friends

Chapter Twenty Eight

The Change that came

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George Manville Fenn

The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure

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It was true enough: the great bird, which so short a time ago was seeming to spin with such wonderful speed across the veldt that its legs were nearly invisible, now lay on its side, with the stilt-like members perfectly still, one being stretched out to its full length, the other in a peculiar double angle, through the broken bone making a fresh joint.

“Oh, the poor old goblin!” said the boy, hurriedly unloosening the rein which held down its head. “I didn’t choke it, did I? No: look, the loop was quite big.”

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