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Updated: June 11, 2025
It's all about those how-wid Wajahs. I didn't understand it." Wressley of the Foreign Office was broken, smashed, I am not exaggerating by this one frivolous little girl. All that he could say feebly was: "But, but it's my magnum opus! The work of my life." Miss Venner did not know what magnum opus meant; but she knew that Captain Kerrington had won three races at the last Gymkhana.
Fencing is eagerly learned; the English officer who teaches it being delighted with his pupils' progress. Lessons in gymnastics, like those in other sports, are optional. Periodically a gymkhana is got up, with donkey races, gymnastic competitions, and the distribution of prizes. Work. No work is demanded from the prisoners. Correspondence, Money Orders and Parcels.
It is all my fault; she has had such a lot of housekeeping to see to and take over, and she is such a delightful companion that I have not been able to bear her out of my sight." "But, dear Mrs. Krauss, we cannot allow you to appropriate Miss Leigh altogether. I hope you will spare her to me now and then. Perhaps Miss Leigh could come with me to the Gymkhana dance next week?"
Charlesworth came to lunch in a smart riding-kit, looking particularly well-groomed and handsome. The girl was quite excited about the gymkhana, and plied him with innumerable questions as to what she would have to do. She learned that they were to enter for two affinity events.
'Then, Captain Drake, I'm sorry' she carefully crossed out the three 'V.D.'s' 'I promised all the dances I had left after ten to Mr. Holmcroft. Most of the others I gave away at the gymkhana really. Why weren't you there? That Persian tutor again! I'm afraid you are working too hard. And what did the Rani do, Mr. Holmcroft? It's like the Arabian Nights, only with real jewels
"You'll want two horses, my boy," he announced, "if you're going in for paper-chasing and the gymkhana; you might chance on a bargain, too. I heard of a fellow who got a wonder for three hundred rupees, an ugly ewe-necked brute, but he carried off the Gold Cup and every blessed thing he was entered for.
Besides having the entrée to the Salters' domestic circle, Shafto had been elected a member of the Gymkhana Club, where he made various new acquaintances and these increased in number as his prowess in tennis and cricket became evident; then, with the advice and, indeed, almost under the compulsion of FitzGerald, he purchased a smart stud-bred mare, certainly no longer in her first youth, but sound, clever and full of "go."
In particular, both were keen about the Cockade Tournament: a glorified version of fencing on horseback: the wire masks adorned with a small coloured feather for plume. He was victor whose fencing-stick detached his opponent's feather. The prize Bachelor's Purse had been well subscribed for and supplemented by Gymkhana funds. So, on all accounts, it was a popular event.
In him the Town Guard lost a capable captain, and Kimberley a worthy citizen. Saturday was Dingaan's day a sad reminder of the rejoicings associated with the anniversary, and which had to be skipped for once. Despite the prevailing glumness, however, the populace turned out to patronise a gymkhana entertainment at the Light Horse camp. Amid such gala surroundings the week ended.
Beyond the hill and well outside the town which would be called a city if it were walled, which would be walled if a wall would not separate it from the great Highway was the station Oval, where railway people lived in European bungalows of many colours, round about the gymkhana a building made to contain music and strange games; but from the arches of all its verandahs the railway people saw.
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