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8THE ANIMALS PUT A STUNNING DISPLAY
Stalk us they will, make us from our tranquillity fly
Goad and prod to dare us to fangs bare
And even try to pick us up by our tail if they could
To mill around, surround
For a picture apiece
Awesome, in their books to do the rounds
Athena resumed the next day and without losing the thread, straightaway took off without much ado. “The graceful blackbuck, now one of the inhabitants of the pocket of the savannah — open grassland that occurs in the southern parts of the forest — was a recent arrival at the time of the beginning of this story and it came to be thus: Blackbucks, as we all know, are dwellers of open spaces and grasslands. At times of scarcity and drought, their grazing land is forcibly occupied by cattle and sheep that man brings in
