sharp."

Dick and Henri both answered to the summons, and

they succeeded in throwing the struggling animal on its

side and holding it down until its excitement was somewhat

abated. Pee-eye-em had also been successful in

securing his favourite hunter: but nearly every other

horse belonging to the camp had broken loose and joined

the whirlwind gallop. But they gradually dropped out,

and before morning the most of them were secured by

their owners. As there were at least two thousand