“Directly he was tied up, you recollect, the very first night, he barked—no, the second.”
“It may have come every night before.”
“Right inside the stockade—under the awning.”
“Into the hut while we were away—the bacon was on the shelf.”
“If It could jump up like that, it could jump the fence.”
“Of course; and it shows it was a cat-like creature, because it could take one thing without disturbing another. Dogs knock things down, cats don’t.”
“No, panthers are a sort of big cat.”
“That’s what gnawed the jack’s head.”
“And why there was no mark on the ground—their pads are so soft, and don’t cut holes like hoofs.”
“The kangaroos too, you remember: very often they wouldn’t come out. Something was about.”