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Updated: June 17, 2025
"I told you we don't allow idlers aboard," exclaimed old Jim, bestowing several cuts with a rope's-end on his shoulders. "Don't let me ever catch you again with your book aloft doing nothing, or overboard it goes; we don't want psalm-singers or Bible-readers among us. Remember my words." Peter trembled with alarm for the safety of his book.
As has been pointed out in other chapters, the officers had no power over their men, and consequently the armies were divided into two classes of burghers: those who volunteered their services whenever there was a battle, and those who remained in the laagers the "Bible-readers," as they were called by some of the more youthful Boers.
Believe me, many think as we do, if it were not so, the Beggars' Song would have sounded louder." "There will always be five fools to three wise men," said the older citizen. "I took good care not to split my mouth." "And after all, what great thing is there behind this outcry for freedom? Alva burnt the Bible-readers, De la Marck hangs the priests.
And you think to bridge over the chasm between classes with flowers, in pots, yes, and Bible-readers and fashionable visitors and little aid societies little palliatives for an awful state of things. Why, look at it!
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