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Adventures and Letters

CHAPTER XVI
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I wanted the head of a hippopotamus awfully keenly for the farm.

But of the only two I saw on land, both got away from me.

I did not shoot at any I saw in the water, although the other idiot on board did, because if you kill them, you cannot recover them, and it seems most unsportsmanlike.

Besides, I was so grateful to them for being so proud and pompous, and real aristocrats dating back from the flood.

But I was terribly disappointed at losing both of those I saw on land.


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