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Quoth little red jackal, famishing, "Lo, / Yonder a priest and a soldier go; / You can see farthest, and you ought to know,-- / Which shall I wander with, carrion crow?" / The crow cawed back at him, "Ignorant beast! / Soldiers get glory, but none of the feast; / Soldiers work hardest, and snaffle the least. / Take my advice on it--Follow the priest!"
IT was two hours after sunrise on the second day that followed Cunningham's desertion of his party when he and Mahommed Gunga first caught sight of a blue, baked rock rising sheer out of a fringe of green on the dazzling horizon. It was a freak of nature--a point pushed through the level crust of bone-dry earth, and left to glitter there alone.