this
she crouched, waiting for morning. At dawn the village wherein men and
women lived was astir, and at sunrise the gates were opened. A little
later Dog signalled himself by his well-known barks as he came out to
take his morning's exercise. Unsuspicious of the presence of his late
dread mistress he bounded up the hill and began to circle around,
chasing the lively moths. Leopardess, urged by her anger, did not wait
until Dog, tired with his sport, would of his own accord stray among the
bushes, but uttering a loud roar sprang out from her hiding-place. Dog,
warned by her voice, which he well knew, put his tail between his legs
and rushed through the open gates and alarmed his new masters, who came
pouring from their houses with dreadful weapons in their hands, who
chased her, and would have slain her had she not bounded over the fence.
Thus Leopardess lost her last chance of revenging the death of her cub;
but as she was creeping homeward her mortification was so great that she
vowed to teach her young eternal hostility towards Dog and all his
tribe. Dog also, convinced that his late mistress was one who nourished
an implacable resentment when offended, became more cautious, and a
continued life with his new masters increased his attachment for them.
When he finally married, and was blessed with a progeny, he taught his
pups various arts by which they might ingratiate themselves more and
more with the human race. He lived in comfort and affluence to a good
old age, and had the satisfaction to see his family grow more and more
in the estimation of their generous masters, until dogs and men became
inseparable companions.

Leopardess and her cub removed far away from the house associated with
her misfortune, but though Time healed the keen sore of her bereavement
by blessing her annually with more cubs, her hate for Dog and his kind
was lasting and continues to this day. And thus it was that the
friendly fellowship which reigned between the forest animals during the
golden age of Uganda was broken for ever.

For proof of the truth of what I have said consider the matter in your
own minds. Regard the Ape who, upon the least alarm springs up the
tree, and stays not until he has secured himself far from reach. Think
of the Jackal in his cheerless solitude deep in the bowels of the earth,
or in the farthest rocky recess that he can discover, ever on the watch
against some foe, too full of distrust to have a frie