Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight. As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared; this One noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up.... "I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt. The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would." With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both
and fall easy (E) prey to predators. Often a new-born calf would become separated from its mother before it had learned to recognise her. Then the infant would attach itself to anything that moved, sometimes even (F) tottering hopefully towards a waiting lion. When the great migration began, many more youngsters would be swept away and drowned during the massed river crossings, dragged down by crocodiles or trampled beneath the (G) frantic press of bodies from which others would emerge (H) hobbling on broken limbs to await the inevitable hyenas. And always there were the ravenous hunters; the packs of brindled wild dogs whose sudden appearance, (I) loping over the dawn horizons, threw the herds into headlong panic; the rangy cheetahs with their devastating (J) stride; and the ever-watchful prides of lions through whose territories the wildebeest would have to pass. Immediately after the rains the Serengeti pasture was so prolific that a single acre might produce
`A Hungarian', `a Romanian', `a Pole', `a Czech': after they've been invoked again and again, as if they were concrete entities, they begin, on the contrary, to seem like figures of allegory, hobbling across an abstract, worn landscape of the mind. What can such designations mean in a world in which it takes less time to go from Poland to Hungary than to sit through a Woody Allen movie, and in which most computers in Slovakia are IBM compatible
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