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-"Do you want a pet, Jackson?" asked Brown, the white officer in charge of the squad of native police, as he rode up to my camp and took something off the front of his saddle something that squealed and gave little sharp shrieks.
-"What have you there, Brown?" I asked. "Is it a monkey or a bunyip? or--oh, I see, a nigger pickanniny."