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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: He stopped and we stared at each other. Then I called Lost and
patted its head, and the dear beast licked my hand as though it
understood that it was being thanked.
"A strange tale," I said, "but God Almighty has put much wisdom
into His creatures of which we know nothing. Let us thank Him,"
and in our hearts we did.
Thus was I rescued from death by the intelligence and fidelity of
a four-footed creature. Doubtless in my semi-conscious state
that resulted from shock, weariness and sun-stroke, I had all the
while headed sub-consciously and without any definite object for
the Black Kloof. When I was within a few miles of it I was
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