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yO ALGEKrSTE NOTES.
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XVIIL—ALGERINE NOTES.
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THE JACKAL Jackals are very numerous, no...
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1-« Je Le Tiens, Ce Nid De Fauvette;
AL . ! pourrais je causer leur peine , Moi qui 1 ' etedans ces vallons
, , , Venais m'endormir sous un chene , Au bruit de leurs donees chansons ?
Helas ! si du sein de ma mere Un mediant venait me ravir
Je Elle le sens n ' aura biens it p , kis dans qu sa 'a inisere mourir , . Et je serais assez foarbare
Pour vous arracher vos enfants ; _JSTon , non , que rien ne vous separe :
] _S ~ , les voici , je vous les rends . _Apprenez leur dans le bocage
A voltiger aupres de vous ; Qu'ils ecoutent votre ramage ,
Pour former des sons aussi doux . Et moi , dans la saison prochaine
Je reviendrai dans ces vallons , — Dormir quelque fois sous un cliene
Au bruit de leur jeunes cliansons .
_Berquin _.
Yo Algekrste Notes.
_yO _ALGEKrSTE NOTES .
Xviil—Algerine Notes.
XVIIL—ALGERINE NOTES . PART II . _ALGERINE ANIMALS .
The Jackal Jackals Are Very Numerous, No...
THE JACKAL Jackals are very numerousnotwithstanding their constant
destruc-, tion by snares or guns , Government pays' Is . 3 d . for each one killed . When they are gathered together in bands they will sometimes
attack a wounded ox , cow , or donkey , if they find it in the field unguarded . I saw more than once a full-grown hog , and once a
cow with a broken leg , devoured by them . An Arab who was shot limited near but since a model their then farm havoc , save was to under entirel fruits y excep devoured tional in circumstances a single nig , ht they , in 1839 have ,
February and Marchwhen the , poultry kids , and lambs lambs , kids are , or in goats the fields . In _hysenas often spring , at the flockand endeavor to frihten ,
the parents and catch the young s ones . ' They breed g with away the Arabian dogs , and these cross breeds become the greatest
enemy to the jackal race . The jackals , when they are domesticated , learn to bark louder than , in the savage state , and reared with dogs
in they its become mouth , gentle when it and saw sociable a setter . doing I had the one which same thing carried \ it objects lived
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/18/
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