`` Hairy -- too hairy , and when found in the water more than likely to hide a cross-shaped hook . But that goat I accepted , and went down to the Ghaut in great honour . Later , my Fate sent me the boatman who had desired to cut off my tail with an axe . His boat grounded upon an old shoal which you would not remember . '' `` We are not ALL jackals here , '' said the Adjutant . `` Was it the shoal made where the stone-boats sank in the year of the great drouth -- a long shoal that lasted three floods ? '' `` There were two , '' said the Mugger ; `` an upper and a lower shoal . '' `` Ay , I forgot . A channel divided them , and later dried up again , '' said the Adjutant , who prided himself on his memory . `` On the lower shoal my well-wisher 's craft grounded . He was sleeping in the bows , and , half awake , leaped over to his waist -- no , it was no more than to his knees -- to push off . His empty boat went on and touched again below the next reach , as the river ran then . I followed , because I knew men would come out to drag it ashore . '' `` And did they do so ? '' said the Jackal , a little awe-stricken . This was hunting on a scale that impressed him . `` There and lower down they did . I went no farther , but that gave me three in one day -- well-fed manjis -LRB- boatmen -RRB- all , and , except in the case of the last -LRB- then I was careless -RRB- , never a cry to warn those on the bank . '' `` Ah , noble sport ! But what cleverness and great judgment it requires ! ''
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